![]() When I first read The Maids, I wasn’t interested in the idea of murder but in Genet’s highly charged representation of the two sisters, their crazed relationship to each other, as well as to their “Madame,” and in the depiction of class warfare in a domestic space. I’ve never seen the play performed, though I’ve watched the film version from 1975, directed by Christopher Miles. ![]() ![]() First performed in Paris in 1947, the play is loosely based on the story of the infamous Papin sisters, who murdered their employer in 1933 in Le Mans, France. When I was writing my novel Indelicacy, I felt myself in conversation with Jean Genet’s play The Maids. Here, Amina Cain revisits Jean Genet’s The Maids. ![]() Revisited is a series in which writers look back on a work of art they first encountered long ago. ![]()
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