The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays by Jean Genet 1982 Softcover

The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays by Jean Genet (1982 Softcover Edition) The two plays collected in this volume represent Genet’s first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In The Maids, two domestic workers, deeply resentful of their inferior social position, try to revenge themselves against society by destroying their employer. In Deathwatch, two convicts try to impress a third, who is on the verge of achieving legendary status in criminal circles. But neither realizes the lengths to which they will go to gain respect or that, in the end, nothing they can do, including murder, will get them what they are searching for. Vintage Softcover / Grove Press / 1982 / Good Condition (contains a small amount of underlining from previous owner)