Discipline and Punish vs Portrait of a genius: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Discipline and Punish Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault · 1975 ★★★★☆ 4.1 333 pages · ≈ 6 h 10 m · Challenging
“On 2 March 1757 Damiens the regicide condemmed 'to make the amende honorable before the main door of the Church of Paris', where he was to be 'taken and conveyed in a cart, wearing nothing but a a shirt, holding a torch of burning wax weighing two pounds'; then, 'in the said cart, to the place de Greve, where, on a scaffold that will be erected there, the flesh will be torn from his breasts, arms,”

English version of "Surveiller et punir: naissance de la prison"

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Cover of Portrait of a genius Portrait of a genius Richard Aldington · 1930 43 pages · ≈ 48 min · Demanding

American ed. (New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce) has title: D. H. Lawrence, portrait of a genius, but ... Includes bibliographical references: (p. 355-356).

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Discipline and PunishPortrait of a genius
Hardcover 4.2 (62) —
Apple Books 4.0 (24) —

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Ratings 62 —
Editions 30 34
Film adaptations 1 1
Wikipedia attention 6210 —
Pages 333 43

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