Jean Genet
Jean Genet (; (1910-12-19)December 19, 1910 – April 15, 1986(1986-04-15)) was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing. His major works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Blacks, The Maids and The Screens.
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... Excerpts reprinted in Genet, by Edmund White ... Complete(Editions Gallimard, 2002) Lettre a Jean-Jacques Pauvert, first published as preface to 1954 edition of Les Bonnes ... 'Fragments et autres textes, 1990 (Fragments of the Artwork, 2003) Lettres à Jean-Louis Barrault Lettres à Roger Blin Lettres à Antoine Bourseiller ...
1942 The Stranger by Albert Camus (Algeria, France) Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet (France) Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Plays The Flies by Jean-Paul ... Poetry Selected Poems by Keith Douglas (England) Non-fiction Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus 1944 The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary Ficciones ... in 1946 ... Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (South Africa) The Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian (France) The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers Poetry Deaths ...
... 1971 Jean Genet The Balcony Giles Havergal The Tramp 1972–1973 Shakespeare Timon of Athens Keith Hack Lucullus Abbey TheatreFestival Jean-Baptiste Molière Tartuffe Giles Havergal M ... Mr Puntila and his Man Matti Havergal The Attaché 1982–1983 Jean Genet The Balcony Prowse The General Jean Genet The Screens Prowse The Arab Voice Prowse Jean Genet ... Louis Ernst Toller The Machine Wreckers Havergal Jim Cobbitt Jean-Paul Sartre Altona McDonald Franz Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Havergal ...
... Jean Genet and Tennessee Williams in Tanger, 1992 ... Jean Genet in Tanger, 1993 ... Jean Genet, suite and end, 1996 ...
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“To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)
“Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity.... Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general’s sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds.... Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)