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While writing Monday’s post I came across this series of new cover designs for the most recent Faber editions of Genet’s novels. I hadn’t seen these before but I liked the way they look as a set. Jonathan Pelham<\/a> is the designer. At first glance the covers infringe one of my personal rules for cover design, that you should try and create something that couldn’t easily be used on another book by a different author; this is more of a challenge when a design is minimal or tending towards abstraction as these are. But Genet’s covers from British publishers have veered from the featureless (the Anthony Blond hardbacks of the 1960s) to the bizarrely random (the 1971 Penguin edition of Miracle of the Rose<\/em> with a detail from Max Ernst’s Europe After the Rain<\/em>\u2014see below), so anything that looks this smart and consistent is a plus. I still like the series of paperbacks that Panther published in the early 1970s (also below) but they only did three of the books, with the Rubens typeface being a carry over from the Grove Press hardbacks designed by Roy Kuhlman. The new editions from Faber also feature new introductions by Neil Bartlett (Funeral Rites<\/em>), Terry Hands (Miracle of the Rose<\/em>), Jon Savage (Querelle of Brest<\/em>), and Ahdaf Soueif (The Thief’s Journal<\/em>).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Design by Germano Facetti. JG Ballard admired Genet’s writing as much as he admired Max Ernst’s painting so I imagine he would have liked this cover, suitable or not.<\/em><\/p>\n Photo by Roger Phillips.<\/em><\/p>\n Photo by Michael Bramman.<\/em><\/p>\n Elsewhere on { feuilleton } Previously on { feuilleton } While writing Monday’s post I came across this series of new cover designs for the most recent Faber editions of Genet’s novels. I hadn’t seen these before but I liked the way they look as a set. Jonathan Pelham is the designer. At first glance the covers infringe one of my personal rules for cover … Continue reading “Covering Genet”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Covering Genet","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4,5],"tags":[11207,11208,751,137,246,11205,112,11209,4168,6326,4282,11206],"class_list":["post-20376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-gay","tag-ahdaf-soueif","tag-germano-facetti","tag-jean-genet","tag-jg-ballard","tag-jon-savage","tag-jonathan-pelham","tag-max-ernst","tag-michael-bramman","tag-neil-bartlett","tag-roger-phillips","tag-roy-kuhlman","tag-terry-hands"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5iE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"pelham-genet2.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pelham-genet2.jpg\")
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\n\u2022 The book covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Notre Dame des Fleurs: Variations on a Genet Classic<\/a>
\n\u2022 Genet art<\/a>
\n\u2022 Flowers: A Pantomime for Jean Genet<\/a>
\n\u2022 Querelle de Brest<\/a>
\n\u2022 Jean Genet, 1981<\/a>
\n\u2022 Un Chant d\u2019Amour (nouveau)<\/a>
\n\u2022 Jean Genet\u2026 \u2018The Courtesy of Objects\u2019<\/a>
\n\u2022 Querelle again<\/a>
\n\u2022 Saint Genet<\/a>
\n\u2022 Emil Cadoo<\/a>
\n\u2022 Exterface <\/a>
\n\u2022 Penguin Labyrinths and the Thief\u2019s Journal<\/a>
\n\u2022 Un Chant D\u2019Amour by Jean Genet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"