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Article: Jean Genet: The Miracle of the Prose
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- The Washington Post
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- November 14, 1993
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GENET
A Biography
By Edmund White
Knopf. 728 pp. $35
IN THIS extraordinary biography by Edmund White, the life and
works of the French writer Jean Genet (1910-1986) are laid out with
precision, tact and luminous intelligence. Although Anglo-American
readers have become accustomed to the massively detailed literary
biography - Richard Ellman on Joyce and Wilde, Gordon Haight on
George Eliot, George Painter on Proust - White's is, I think, in a
class all its own as befits its phenomenally eccentric and
prodigiously gifted subject, a one-time thief, prison inmate, male
prostitute, deserter and vagabond who is one of the very greatest
writers of 20th-century France. Not just a fastidious ...
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