Jean Genet
Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. His major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens.
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Background
- Born in
- 6th arrondissement of Paris
- Awards
- 🏆 Grand prix national des Lettres🏆 Pleiades Prize🏆 star on Playwrights' Sidewalk
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Trending topics shown first"But--criminals are remote from you--as in love, they turn away and turn me away from the world and its laws. Thiers smells of sweat, sperm, and blood. In short, to my body and my thristy soul it offer…"
"Yet, what is their violence compared to mine, which was to accept theirs, to make it mine, to wish it for myself, to intercept it, to utilize it, to force it upon myself, to know it, to premeditate it…"
"Fierce and pure, I was the theater of a fairyland restored to life."
"The Day the Palestinians become institutionalized, I will no longer be on their side."
"I suffered at the time from an ugliness I no longer find on my childhood face."
"So long as we were in a room in a brothel, we belonged to our fantasies, but once having exposed them, we're now tied up with human beings, tied to you and forced to go on with this adventure accordin…"
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1910
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Died
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