Article: Jean Genet in the delinquent colony of Mettray: The development of an ethical rite of passage.

Article: The face over the body. (poem)
The Nation;  January 3, 1994 ;     700+ words ......incarceration at Mettray, a reformatory and...penitentiary, when Genet was 15. (His novel...where he grew up Genet had been an outsider...activities. Now, at Mettray, for the first time...idealizing his years at Mettray, Genet actually enlisted...

Article: Gaitet, Pascale. Queens and Revolutionaries: New Readings of Jean Genet.(Book Review)
Studies in the Novel;  June 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......and Revolutionaries: New Readings of Jean Genet. Newark: University of Delaware Press...50 (hardcover). Not much has happened in Genet scholarship for over a decade, ever since...White published his quintessential study (Genet: A Biography, 1993) of the legendary, gay...

Article: Genet: Up From the Depths to High Art
Chicago Sun-Times;  October 10, 1993 ;     700+ words ......its most amoral and pessimistic authors? Edmund White's Genet: A Biography reminds us that there is much to be inspired...that White offers in this first full-scale treatment of Genet's life and works. Born in 1910 in Paris and abandoned by his mother at 7 months, Genet grew up with a foster family in ...

Article: Genet's Palestinian revolution.(Prisoner of Love by Jean Genet)(Book Review)
The Nation;  February 24, 2003 ;     700+ words ...PRISONER OF LOVE. By Jean Genet. Translated by Barbara Bray. New York...France in 1986, Le Matin declared that Genet was assuredly one of the greatest French...book, and even readers familiar with Genet are sometimes unaware of its existence...

Article: (book reviews)
World Literature Today;  September 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ......with the facts taken from Genet's autobiographical fiction...half of the book show that Genet's life is an exceptional itinerary...years at the reformatory of Mettray, the army where he refused...productive period in his life, Genet wrote his five novels and...prison life, or the memories of ...

Article: Genet: A Biography.
The Nation;  January 3, 1994 ;     700+ words ......a biographer to grapple with than Jean Genet. And after reading Edmund White's massive...of contemporary gay novelists, and Jean Genet, the flagrant homosexual and bad boy genius...twentieth-century literature. In the larger sense, Genet's life, which was always steeped in controversy...

Article: Genet, Jean. The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews.(Book review)
Studies in the Novel;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...GENET, JEAN. The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews. Albert Dichy...Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 384 pp. $24.95. First Genet was a poet. Then he was a novelist. After that he became...political essays and articles for newspapers. This is the Genet whom we are just beginning to become ...

Article: David Houston Jones. The Body Abject: Self and Text in Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett.(Book Review)
French Forum;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......argument that a viable reading of the texts of Genet and Beckett can be made through the concept...Other, becomes abject. The marginality of Genet's petty criminals, beggars, and traitors...of the disabled or dysfunctional, while Genet's writings link mother figures to objects...

Article: Jean Genet: The Miracle of the Prose
The Washington Post;  November 14, 1993 ;     700+ words ......calmly written analysis of Genet's plays, novels and essays...an indigent single mother, Genet was abandoned by her when...17 1/2 as an inmate at La Mettray, an agricultural penal colony...Tours. White's chronicle of Genet's early life is spell-binding...reformatories. As a penal colony, La ...

Article: Ethics of the wound: a new interpretation of Jean Genet's politics.
Journal of European Studies;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...This article sheds new light on Jean Genet's complex notion of political commitment...blessure' or wound, gets to the core of Genet's politics, for it determines his ethical...illuminates other little-discussed aspects of Genet's politics, including his anarchic, deterritorialized...

Article: Facets of artifice: rhythms in the theater of Jean Genet, and the painting, drawing, and sculpture of Alberto Giacometti.
French Forum;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......defaisant. Alberto Giacometti The works of Jean Genet and Alberto Giacometti embody an immutable...reality. Each word, theme and character in Genet's texts, each line, color and figure in...entitled L'Atelier d'Alberto Giacometti, Genet describes the artist's figures as crystallized...

Article: Genet, Jean
Who's Who in the Twentieth Century;      329 words ...Genet, Jean (1910–1986) French novelist and dramatist. Genet was born in Paris, the unwanted illegitimate...part of his youth in the reform school at Mettray; his experiences there inspired part of...Miracle of the Rose , 1965). In the 1930s Genet made his living as a pickpocket and ...

Article: No shocks left in Genet's predictable 'Balcony'
Chicago Sun-Times;  February 2, 2005 ;     457 words ......Tickets: $25 Call: (773) 327-5252 Jean Genet -- thief, homosexual prostitute, poet-playwright...streets of both Paris and the United States. Genet was something of a punk maestro long before...you could be, the better. The revival of Genet's socio-political psychodrama and gabfest...

Article: MY, HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED GENET TO BE HONORED TONIGHT
Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current);  December 7, 2007 ;     309 words ......girls has changed dramatically since Becky Genet took over as Perry Central High School...girls. The girls appreciated it," said Genet, who will be honored at halftime of the...and kids don't realize what they have." Genet did not participate in volleyball when...