Translator's Note | p. vii |
The Metamorphosis | |
The Melodious Child Dead in Me Long Before the Ax Chops Off My Head | p. 1 |
A Dizzying Word | p. 17 |
First Conversion: Evil | |
I Will Be the Thief | p. 49 |
I Decided to Be What Crime Made of Me | p. 59 |
The Eternal Couple of the Criminal and the Saint | p. 73 |
I is Another | p. 138 |
A Daily Labor, Long and Disappointing | p. 150 |
"To Succeed in Being All, Strive to Be Nothing in Anything" | p. 194 |
Cain | p. 250 |
Second Metamorphosis: The Aesthete | |
Strange Hell of Beauty | p. 355 |
I Went to Theft as to a Liberation, as to the Light | p. 402 |
Third Metamorphosis: The Writer | |
A Mechanism Having the Exact Rigor of Verse | p. 425 |
And I, Gentler than a Wicked Angel, Lead Her by the Hand | p. 447 |
On the Fine Arts Considered as Murder | p. 483 |
My Victory Is Verbal and I Owe It to the Sumptuousness of the Terms | p. 544 |
Please Use Genet Properly | p. 584 |
Appendices | |
Self-Portrait of the Good Citizen | p. 601 |
The Tzedek Test | p. 607 |
The Maids | p. 611 |
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