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Article: Jean Genet in the delinquent colony of Mettray: The development of an ethical rite of passage.
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- French Forum
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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Jean Genet's outcast status is called an aesthetic one. (1) One of his earliest experiences of being an outcast was at Mettray, a colony for young male delinquents near Tours. Genet was sentenced to the colony from the age of fifteen in September 1926 until his majority. After two and a half years at Mettray, he volunteered for the military to end his term in March 1929. Later combining his talents as a writer, dramatist, and poet, Genet would return to his term as a delinquent and portray it as a rite of passage from the ethical system he learned in reform school to his aesthetic vision of the outcast. Genet's aesthetic refers to the product of his artistic blend of ...
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