Jean Genet (French IPA: [ʒɑ̃ ʒə'nɛ]) (December 19, 1910(1910-12-19) – April 15, 1986), was a prominent, controversial French writer and later political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal; later in life, Genet wrote novels, plays, poems, and essays, including Querelle de Brest, The Thief's Journal, Our Lady of the Flowers, The Balcony, The Blacks and The Maids. Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as involvement in action to bring about change, be it social, political, environmental, or other change. ... Georges Jo Querelle is the protagonist and antihero of Jean Genets 1947 novel Querelle de Brest. ... A Thiefs Journal is perhaps Jean Genets most famous work of literature. ... Our Lady of the Flowers is the debut novel of French writer Jean Genet, published in 1944 in French as Notre-Dame des fleurs. ... The Balcony (Le Balcon) is a 1956 play by Jean Genet. ... The Blacks: A Clown Show (Les Nègres) is a play by the French dramatist and novelist Jean Genet. ... Salacious Sinners The Maids is a play written by French writer Jean Genet. ...

Life

Genet's mother was a young prostitute who raised him for the first year of his life before putting him up for adoption. Thereafter Genet was raised in the provinces by a carpenter and his family, who according to Edmund White's biography, were loving and attentive. While he received excellent grades in school, his childhood involved a series of attempts at running away and incidents of petty theft (although White also suggests that Genet's later claims of a dismal, impoverished childhood were exaggerated to fit his outlaw image). For other uses, see Adoption (disambiguation). ... Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is a novelist, short-story writer and critic. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Everyday instance of theft: the bike which fits on this wheel has disappeared. ...

After the death of his foster mother, Genet was placed with an elderly couple but remained with them less than two years. According to the wife, "he was going out nights and also seemed to be wearing makeup." On one occasion he squandered a considerable sum of money, which they had entrusted him for delivery elsewhere, on a visit to a local fair. For this and other misdemeanors, including repeated acts of vagrancy, he was sent at the age of 15 to Mettray Penal Colony where he was detained between 2 September 1926 and 1 March 1929. In The Miracle of the Rose (1946), he gives an account of this period of detention, which ended at the age of 18 when he joined the Foreign Legion. He was eventually given a dishonorable discharge on grounds of indecency (having been caught engaged in a homosexual act) and spent a period as a vagabond, petty thief and prostitute across Europe— experiences he recounts in The Thief's Journal (1949). After returning to Paris, France in 1937 Genet was in and out of prison through a series of arrests for theft, use of false papers, vagabondage, lewd acts and other offenses. In prison, Genet wrote his first poem, "Le condamné à mort," which he had printed at his own cost and the novel Our Lady of the Flowers (1944). In Paris, Genet sought out and introduced himself to Jean Cocteau, who was impressed by his writing. Cocteau used his contacts to get Genet's novel published and when in 1949 after ten convictions, Genet was threatened with a life sentence, Cocteau, joined by other key figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Pablo Picasso, successfully petitioned the French President to have the sentence set aside. Genet would never again return to prison. Mettray Penal Colony, situated in the small village of Mettray, in the French département of Indre-et-Loire, just north of the city of Tour, was a private reformatory, without walls, opened in 1839 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents aged between 6 and 21. ... The Miracle of the Rose (French: Miracle de la rose) is a 1946 book by Jean Genet about his experiences as a detainee at Mettray Youth detention centre and Fontevrault prison. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... “Legionnaire” redirects here. ... Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ... A male prostitute (or rent boy (UK)/hustler (US)) is a sex worker or prostitute who earns money by providing sexual services to clients. ... World map showing the location of Europe. ... A Thiefs Journal is perhaps Jean Genets most famous work of literature. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Everett Millais The Blind Girl: vagrant musicians See also vagrancy (biology) for an alternative use of the term. ... Our Lady of the Flowers is the debut novel of French writer Jean Genet, published in 1944 in French as Notre-Dame des fleurs. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Life imprisonment is a term used for a particular kind of sentence of imprisonment. ... Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre (pronounced: ), was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. ... Pablo Ruiz Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. ...

By 1949 Genet had completed five novels, three plays and numerous poems. His explicit and often deliberately provocative portrayal of homosexuality and criminality was such that by the early 1950s, his work was banned in the United States.^[1] Sartre wrote a long analysis of Genet's existential development (from vagrant to writer) entitled Saint Genet comédien et martyr (1952) which was anonymously published as the first volume of Genet's complete works. Genet was strongly affected by Sartre's analysis and did not write for the following five years. Between 1955 and 1961 Genet wrote three more plays as well as an essay called "What Remains of a Rembrandt Torn Into Four Equal Pieces and Flushed Down the Toilet", on which hinged Jacques Derrida's analysis of Genet in his seminal work "Glas". During this time he became emotionally attached to Abdallah, a tightrope walker. However, following a number of accidents and Abdallah's suicide in 1964, Genet entered a period of depression, and attempted suicide. 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... Existentialism is a philosophical movement which claims that individual human beings create the meanings of their own lives. ... Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the Dutch painter. ... Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. ... Mayor of Leipzig, Germany, committed suicide along with his wife and daughter on April 20, 1945. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Clinical depression (also called major depressive disorder, or unipolar depression when compared to bipolar disorder) is a state of intense sadness, melancholia or despair that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individuals social functioning and/or activities of daily living. ...

From the late 1960s, starting with a homage to Daniel Cohn-Bendit after the events of May 1968, Genet became politically active. He participated in demonstrations drawing attention to the living conditions of immigrants in France. In 1970 the Black Panthers invited him to the USA where he stayed for three months giving lectures, attending the trial of their leader, Huey Newton and publishing articles in their journals. Later the same year he spent six months in Palestinian refugee camps, secretly meeting Yasser Arafat near Amman. Profoundly moved by his experiences in Jordan and the USA, Genet wrote a final lengthy memoir about his experiences, A Prisoner of Love, which would be published after his death. Genet also supported Angela Davis and George Jackson, as well as Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert's Prison Information Group. He worked with Foucault and Sartre to protest police brutality against Algerians in Paris, a problem persisting since the Algerian War of Independence, when beaten bodies were to be found floating in the Seine. In September 1982 Genet was in Beirut when the massacres took place in the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Shatila. In response, Genet published "Quatre heures à Chatila" (Four Hours in Shatila), an account of his visit to Shatila after the event. In one of his rare public appearances during the later period of his life, at the invitation of Austrian philosopher Hans Köchler he read from his work during the inauguration of an exhibition on the massacre of Sabra and Shatila, organized by the International Progress Organization in Vienna, Austria, on 19 December 1983. (Genet in Vienna) The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... 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Genet developed throat cancer and was found dead on April 15, 1986 in a hotel room in Paris. Genet may have fallen on the floor and fatally hit his head. He was buried in the Spanish Cemetery in Larache, Morocco. Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these to spread, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion, or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (where cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system). ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... Larache (also Laraish, El Araish العرائش) is a port city located in northern Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean. ...

Genet's works

Novels and Autobiography

Throughout his five early novels, Genet works to subvert the traditional set of moral values of his assumed readership. He celebrates a beauty in evil, emphasizing his singularity as he raises violent criminals to icons, enjoys the specificity of gay gesture and coding and depicts scenes of betrayal.-1... For other uses, see Evil (disambiguation). ... Look up icon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

The first novel, Our Lady of the Flowers (1944), is a journey through the prison underworld, featuring a fictionalized alter-ego by the name of Divine, usually referred to in the feminine, at the center of a circle of tantes ("aunties" or "queens") with colorful sobriquets such as Our Lady of the Flowers, Mimosa I, Mimosa II and First Communion. The two auto-fictional novels, The Miracle of the Rose (1946) and The Thief's Journal (1949), describe Genet's time in Mettray Penal Colony and his experiences as a vagabond and prostitute across Europe. Querelle de Brest (1947) is set in the midst of the port town of Brest, where sailors and the sea are associated with murder, and Funeral Rites (1949) is a story of love and betrayal across political divides, written this time for the narrator's lover, Jean Decarnin, killed by the Germans in WWII. Our Lady of the Flowers is the debut novel of French writer Jean Genet, published in 1944 in French as Notre-Dame des fleurs. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... The Miracle of the Rose (French: Miracle de la rose) is a 1946 book by Jean Genet about his experiences as a detainee at Mettray Youth detention centre and Fontevrault prison. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Thiefs Journal is perhaps Jean Genets most famous work of literature. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Mettray Penal Colony, situated in the small village of Mettray, in the French département of Indre-et-Loire, just north of the city of Tour, was a private reformatory, without walls, opened in 1839 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents aged between 6 and 21. ... Georges Jo Querelle is the protagonist and antihero of Jean Genets 1947 novel Querelle de Brest. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

A Prisoner of Love published in (1986), after Genet's death, is a memoir of his encounters with Palestinian fighters and Black Panthers; it has, therefore, a more documentary tone than his fiction. Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ...

Plays

Associated by some critics with the Theatre of Cruelty, Genet's plays present highly-stylized depictions of ritualistic struggles between outcasts of various kinds and their oppressors.^[2] Social identities are parodied and shown to involve complex layering through a complex manipulation of the dramatic fiction and its inherent potential for theatricality and role-play; maids imitate one another and their mistress in The Maids (1949); or the clients of a brothel simulate roles of political power before, in a dramatic reversal, actually becoming those figures, all surrounded by mirrors that both reflect and conceal, in The Balcony (1956). Most strikingly, Genet develops what Aimé Césaire called negritude in The Blacks (1958), presenting a violent assertion of Black identity and anti-white virulence framed in terms of mask-wearing and roles adopted and discarded. His most overtly-political play is The Screens (1963), an epic account of the Algerian War of Independence. The Theatre of Cruelty is a concept in Antonin Artauds book Theatre and its Double. ... Mimesis (μίμησις from μιμεîσθαι) in its simplest context means imitation or representation in Greek. ... Salacious Sinners The Maids is a play written by French writer Jean Genet. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... The Balcony (Le Balcon) is a 1956 play by Jean Genet. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Aimé Fernand David Césaire (born June 25, 1913) is a French poet, author and politician. ... Négritude, a concept developed in the 1930s by a group that included future Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor and Francophone poet Aimé Césaire, is the belief that one should identify ones blackness without reference to ones homeland, native language, religion or spatial/geographical location. ... The Blacks: A Clown Show (Les Nègres) is a play by the French dramatist and novelist Jean Genet. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Blacks was, after The Balcony, the second of Genet's plays to be staged in New York. The production was the longest running Off-Broadway non-musical of the decade. Originally premiered in Paris in 1959, this 1961 New York production ran for 1,408 performances. The original cast featured James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Browne, Louis Gossett, Jr., Cicely Tyson, Godfrey Cambridge, Maya Angelou and Charles Gordone. The Blacks: A Clown Show (Les Nègres) is a play by the French dramatist and novelist Jean Genet. ... The Balcony (Le Balcon) is a 1956 play by Jean Genet. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... James Earl Jones (b. ... Roscoe Lee Browne (May 2, 1925 – April 11, 2007) was an American Emmy Award-winning actor and director, known for his rich voice and dignified bearing. ... Louis Gossett Jr. ... Cicely Tyson (born December 19, 1933) is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American actress. ... Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 - November 29, 1976) was an American comedian and actor, who was especially popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a regular guest on The Merv Griffin Show and other talk shows. ... Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Johnson April 4, 1928)[1] is an American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. ... Charles Edward Gordone (12 October 1925 - 17 November 1995) He was the first black playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize. ...

Film

In 1950, Genet directed Un Chant d'Amour, a 26-minute black-and-white film depicting the fantasies of a gay male prisoner and his prison warden. Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Un Chant dAmour is French writer Jean Genets only film, which he directed in 1950. ... See fantasy for an account of the literary genre involving the development of common or popular fantasies. ...

Genet's work has also been adapted for film and produced by other filmmakers. In 1982, Rainer Werner Fassbinder released Querelle, his final film which is based on Querelle de Brest. It starred Brad Davis, Jeanne Moreau and Franco Nero. Genet never saw this film because he would not have been allowed to smoke in a movie theatre. Todd Haynes' homoerotic movie Poison was also based on the writings of Genet. Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982) was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor, one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema. ... Querelle is both a 1947 novel (Querelle de Brest) by French author Jean Genet and its film adaptation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder from 1982. ... Georges Jo Querelle is the protagonist and antihero of Jean Genets 1947 novel Querelle de Brest. ... Robert Creel Davis (November 6, 1949 - September 8, 1991), better known as Brad Davis, was an American actor. ... Jeanne Moreau (born 23 January 1928 in Paris, France) is a French actress. ... Franco Nero Franco Nero (born November 23, 1941) is an Italian actor. ... Maverick, onetime New Queer Cinema director Todd Haynes was born on January 2, 1961, in Encino, California, and has had a controversial career. ... Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ... Poison is a 1991 gay-themed film written and directed by Todd Haynes. ...

Several of Genet's plays were adapted into films. The Balcony (1963), directed by Joseph Strick, starred Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Lee Grant and Leonard Nimoy. The Balcony (Le Balcon) is a 1956 play by Jean Genet. ... Joseph Strick is an American director, producer and screenwriter. ... Shelley Winters (August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. ... Peter Michael Falk (born September 16, 1927) is an American actor. ... Lee Grant (October 31, 1927 in New York, New York) is an American theater, film and television actress, and film director who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s. ... Leonard Simon Nimoy (born March 26, 1931) is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. ...

Tony Richardson directed a film, Mademoiselle, which was based on a short story by Genet. It starred Jeanne Moreau with the screenplay written by Marguerite Duras. Tony Richardson (June 5, 1928 - November 14, 1991) was a British theatre and film director and producer. ... Jeanne Moreau (born 23 January 1928 in Paris, France) is a French actress. ... Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras, (April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996) was a French writer and film director. ...

His play, The Maids was made into a film starring Glenda Jackson, Susannah York and Vivien Merchant. Salacious Sinners The Maids is a play written by French writer Jean Genet. ... Glenda Jackson Glenda May Jackson, CBE, (born 9 May 1936) is a two-time Academy Award-winning British actress and politician, currently Labour Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden. ... York to the right together with Ilya Salkind on the set of Superman: The Movie, circa 1977 Susannah York (born Susannah Yolande Fletcher on January 9, 1939[1]) is an English actress. ... Vivien Merchant in a scene from The Homecoming (1973) Vivien Merchant (born on July 22, 1929 in Manchester, England) was a British actress, who was born Ada Thompson. ...

Bibliography

Novels and Autobiography

Our Lady of the Flowers is the debut novel of French writer Jean Genet, published in 1944 in French as Notre-Dame des fleurs. ... Our Lady of the Flowers is the debut novel of French writer Jean Genet, published in 1944 in French as Notre-Dame des fleurs. ... Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre (pronounced: ), was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. ... The Miracle of the Rose (French: Miracle de la rose) is a 1946 book by Jean Genet about his experiences as a detainee at Mettray Youth detention centre and Fontevrault prison. ... Georges Jo Querelle is the protagonist and antihero of Jean Genets 1947 novel Querelle de Brest. ... A Thiefs Journal is perhaps Jean Genets most famous work of literature. ... Prisoner of Love can refer to: Prisoner of Love (book), by Jean Genet, an account of the time he spent in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan during 1970-1972. ... Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is a novelist, short-story writer and critic. ...

Theatre

• Haute surveillance (1947) - not published until 1949
• Les Bonnes (1946)
• Deathwatch (1947)
• Le Balcon (1956)
• The Blacks/ Les Nègres (1955)
• The Screens (1955-58)
• "Elle" (1989), édition posthume
• Le Bagne (1994), édition posthume
• Théâtre Complet (2002) - Bibliothèque de la Pléiade "édition présentée, établie et annonté par Michel Corvin et Albert Dichy"

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Poetry

• Le Condamné à mort (1942)

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Correspondance

• Lettres à Roger Blin (1966)
• Lettres à Olga et Marc Barbezat (1988)
• Lettres au petit Franz (2000)

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Complete works

Jean Genet, Œuvres completes (Paris: Gallimard, 1952-)

• Volume 1: Saint Genet: comédien et martyr (by J.-P. Sartre)
• Volume 2: Notre-Dame des fleurs - Le condamné à mort - Miracle de la rose - Un chant d’amour
• Volume 3: Pompes funèbres - Le pêcheur du Suquet - Querelle de Brest
• Volume 4: L’étrange mot d’ ... - Ce qui est resté d’un Rembrandt déchiré en petits carrés - Le balcon - Les bonnes - Haute surveillance -Lettres à Roger Blin - Comment jouer ’Les bonnes’ - Comment jouer ’Le balcon’
• Volume 5: Le funambule - Le secret de Rembrandt - L’atelier d’Alberto Giacometti - Les nègres - Les paravents - L’enfant criminel
• Volume 6: L’ennemi déclaré: textes et entretiens

Further reading

• Barber, Stephen (2004) Jean Genet Reaktion Books, London, ISBN 1-86189-178-4 - biography and critique;
• Coe, Richard N. (1968) The Vision of Genet Grove Press, New York;
• Driver, Tom Faw (1966) Jean Genet Columbia University Press, New York;
• El Maleh, Edmond Amran (1988) Jean Genet, Le captif amoureux : et autres essais Pensée sauvage, Grenoble, ISBN 2-85919-064-3 ;
• Eribon, Didier (2001) Une morale du minoritaire: Variations sur un thème de Jean Genet Librairie Artème Fayard, Paris - critique, ISBN 2-213-60918-7;
• Hubert, Marie-Claude (1996) L'esthétique de Jean Genet SEDES, Paris ISBN 2-7181-9036-1
• Jablonka, Ivan (2004) Les vérités inavouables de Jean Genet Éditions du Seuil, Paris - critique, ISBN 2-02-067940-X;
• Knapp, Bettina Liebowitz (1968) Jean Genet Twayne Publishers, New York;
• McMahon, Joseph H. (1963)The Imagination of Jean Genet Yale University Press, New Haven;
• Sartre, Jean-Paul (1952) Saint Genet, comédien et martyr Gallimard, Paris;
• Webb, Richard C. (1992) File on Genet Methuen Drama, London, ISBN 0-413-65530-X - a general introduction;
• White, Edmund (1993) Genet: A Biography Chatto and Windus, London, ISBN 0-88001-331-1

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References

1. ^ Edward de Grazia, An Interview with Jean Genet. Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 307-324.
2. ^ See Martin Esslin's book for one perspective on Genet's relationship both to Artaud's 'Theatre of Cruelty' and to Esslin's own Theatre of the Absurd.

Antonin Artaud Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud (born September 4, 1896, in Marseille; died March 4, 1948 in Paris) was a French playwright, poet, actor and director. ... The Theatre of Cruelty is a concept in Antonin Artauds book Theatre and its Double. ... The Theatre of the Absurd, or Theater of the Absurd (French: Le Théâtre de lAbsurde) is a designation for particular plays written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as to the style of theatre which has evolved from...

External links

• Genet, Jean (1910–1986) From glbtq: Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, & Queer Culture
• Prisoner of Hate: Jean Genet and Palestine A review of Edmund White's biography of Genet by Martin Kramer
• The Ontological Priority of Violence: On Several Really Smart Things About Violence in Jean Genet's Work By William Haver

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