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Article: Genet: A Biography.
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- October 1, 1993
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A famous Brassai portrait of Jean Genet adorns the dustjacket of Edmund White's new biography of the writer. Genet seems physically slight, his head somehow too big for his frame; his sleeves rolled up and his hands stuffed in his pockets, he is almost the image of the street toughs he lovingly glamorized in Notre Dame des Fleurs, Journal d'un Voleur, and other works. He looks 40. His hair is close-cropped and graying, his eyes are dark, melancholic, even angry. Brassai has backed him into a corner for the picture, a glancing allusion to the various confinements Genet suffered in his youth and perversely celebrated in his art.
White's book is some 800 pages long, ...
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