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Article: Jean Genet
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Jean Genet
Dubbed "the Black Prince of letters," by his discoverer, Jean Cocteau, the French novelist and playwright Jean Genet (1910-1986) was obsessed with the illusory, perverse, and grotesque elements of human experience. His works present the world of the isolated and despairing outcast.
According to his own version of events, Jean Genet was born on Dec. 19, 1910, to a Parisian prostitute, who soon abandoned him. Placed in a foster home, Jean was raised in the Morvau region by a farming family. At the age of 10 he began pilfering articles from his benefactors and their neighbors, perhaps to arouse the parental concern he knew to be absent in his life. His ploy failed and, ...
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Article: Genet, Jean: La Chaste Vie de Jean Genet.(Brief ...
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...Genet, Jean La Chaste Vie de Jean Genet. Lydie Dattas. Paris: Gallimard, 2006. 216 pp. Euro18 ... of Saints. This operation, one surmises, is different from Sartre's (whom, incidentally she calls without excessive refinement ...
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