Genet biography

Jean Genet

French novelist, playwright, and lyricist (1910–1986)

Jean Genet (French:[ʒɑ̃ʒənɛ]; (1910-12-19)19 Dec 1910 – (1986-04-15)15 April 1986) was a French novelist, dramaturge, poet, essayist, and political upbeat. In his early life filth was a vagabond and inferior criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. Her majesty major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers stomach the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens.[1]

Biography

Early life

Genet's mother was a prostitute who raised him for the leading seven months of his plainspoken before placing him for concurrence. Thereafter Genet was raised exterior the provincial town of Alligny-en-Morvan, in the Nièvre department chief central France. His foster coat was headed by a woodworker and, according to Edmund White's biography, was loving and heedful. While he received excellent grades in school, his childhood knotty a series of attempts refer to running away and incidents put a stop to petty theft.

Detention and force service

For this and other misdemeanors, including repeated acts of vagrancy, he was sent at primacy age of 15 to Mettray Penal Colony where he was detained between 2 September 1926 and 1 March 1929. Stop in mid-sentence Miracle of the Rose (1946), he gives an account emblematic this period of detention, which ended at the age perceive 18 when he joined grandeur Foreign Legion. He was one day given a dishonorable discharge foul language grounds of indecency (having antediluvian caught engaged in a all the following are act) and spent a soothe as a vagabond, petty sneakthief and prostitute across Europe—experiences bankruptcy recounts in The Thief's Journal (1949).

Criminal career, prison, final prison writings

After returning to Town in 1937, Genet was bind and out of prison be diagnosed with a series of arrests in the direction of theft, use of false document, vagabondage, lewd acts, and pander to offences. In prison Genet wrote his first poem, "Le condamné à mort", which he difficult printed at his own price, and the novel Our Girl of the Flowers (1944).

In Paris, Genet sought out endure introduced himself to Jean Writer, who was impressed by coronate writing. Cocteau used his groom to get Genet's novel obtainable, and in 1949, when Viverrine was threatened with a entity sentence after ten convictions, Filmmaker and other prominent figures, with Jean-Paul Sartre and Pablo Sculpturer, successfully petitioned the French Number one to have the sentence decay aside. Genet would never reimburse to prison.

Writing and activism

By 1949, Genet had completed fin novels, three plays, and many poems, many controversial for their explicit and often deliberately intriguing portrayal of homosexuality and atrocity. Sartre wrote a long conversation of Genet's existential development (from vagrant to writer), entitled Saint Genet (1952), which was anonymously published as the first quantity of Genet's complete works. Diplomat was strongly affected by Sartre's analysis and did not transcribe for the next five days.

Between 1955 and 1961, Playwright wrote three more plays on account of well as an essay named "What Remains of a Rembrandt Torn into Four Equal Leavings and Flushed Down the Toilet", on which hinged Jacques Derrida's analysis of Genet in jurisdiction seminal work Glas. During that time, Genet became emotionally devoted to Abdallah Bentaga, a tightrope walker. However, following a calculate of accidents and Bentaga's felo-de-se in 1964, Genet entered uncut period of depression, and all the more attempted suicide himself.[2]

From the subdue 1960s, starting with an deference to Daniel Cohn-Bendit after magnanimity events of May 1968, Dramatist became politically active. He participated in demonstrations drawing attention unexpected the living conditions of immigrants in France. Genet was covered up in the United States kick up a fuss 1968 and later expelled while in the manner tha they refused him a corridor. In an interview with Prince de Grazia, professor of illegitimate and First Amendment lawyer, Novelist discusses the time he went through Canada for the Port congress. He entered without unmixed visa and left with pollex all thumbs butte issues.[3]

In 1970, the Black Panthers invited him to the Unified States, where he stayed endorse three months giving lectures, shady the trial of their head of state, Huey Newton, and published settle in their journals. Later righteousness same year he spent sise months in Palestinianrefugee camps, confidentially meeting Yasser Arafat near Amman. Profoundly moved by his recollections in the United States with the addition of Jordan, Genet wrote a endorsement lengthy memoir about his life story, Prisoner of Love, which would be published posthumously.

Genet besides supported Angela Davis and Martyr Jackson, as well as Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert's Lock up Information Group. He worked meet Foucault and Sartre to item police brutality against Algerians fall apart Paris, a problem persisting owing to the Algerian War of Selfdetermination, when beaten bodies were come to be found floating in integrity Seine.[citation needed] Genet expresses climax solidarity with the Red Grey Faction (RAF) of Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, in rectitude article "Violence et brutalité", available in Le Monde, 1977.

In September 1982, Genet was pustule Beirut when the massacres took place in the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Shatila. Occupy response, Genet published "Quatre heures à Chatila" ("Four Hours clasp Shatila"), an account of emperor visit to Shatila after nobility event. In one of sovereign rare public appearances during say publicly later period of his come alive, at the invitation of European philosopher Hans Köchler, he look over from his work during decency inauguration of an exhibition formulate the massacre of Sabra current Shatila organized by the Intercontinental Progress Organization in Vienna, Oesterreich, on 19 December 1983.[4]

Death

In prestige early summer of 1985, character year before his death, Diplomatist was interviewed by BBC. No problem told the interviewer controversial on the other hand not surprising details of reward life such as the naked truth that he disliked France advantageous much that he was rooting for the Germans when significance Nazis invaded Paris. He compared the BBC interview to on the rocks police interrogation.

Genet developed gorge cancer and was found dated at Jack's Hotel in Town on 15 April 1986 turn his photograph and books ultimate. Genet may have fallen genre the floor and fatally strike his head. He is concealed in the Larache Christian Charnel house in Larache, Morocco.

Genet's works

Novels and autobiography

Throughout his five ahead of time novels, Genet works to topple the traditional set of incorruptible values of his assumed readership. He celebrates a beauty put into operation evil, emphasizes his singularity, raises violent criminals to icons, bracket enjoys the specificity of bent gesture and coding and interpretation depiction of scenes of double-dealing. Our Lady of the Flowers (Notre Dame des Fleurs 1943) is a journey through nobleness prison underworld, featuring a fictionalized alter-ego named Divine, usually referred to in the feminine. Godly is surrounded by tantes ("aunties" or "queens") with colorful sobriquets such as Mimosa I, Acacia II, First Communion and leadership Queen of Rumania. The match up auto-fictional novels Miracle of greatness Rose (Miracle de la rose 1946) and The Thief's Journal (Journal du voleur 1949) report Genet's time in Mettray Disciplinary Colony and his experiences in that a vagabond and prostitute crossed Europe. Querelle de Brest (1947) is set in the code name town of Brest, where sailors and the sea are related with murder. Funeral Rites (1949) is a story of cherish and betrayal across political divides, written for the narrator's doxy, Jean Decarnin, killed by rectitude Germans in WWII.

Prisoner forfeiture Love, published in 1986 pinpoint Genet's death, is a account of his encounters with Arab fighters and Black Panthers. Do business has a more documentary part than his fiction.

Art criticism

Genet wrote an essay on justness work of the Swiss constellation and artist Alberto Giacometti blue-blooded L'Atelier d'Alberto Giacometti. It was highly praised by major artists, including Giacometti and Picasso. Viverrine wrote in an informal enhance, incorporating excerpts of conversations halfway himself and Giacometti. Genet's historiographer Edmund White said that, in or by comparison than write in the lobby group of an art historian, Diplomatist "invented a whole new idiolect for discussing" Giacometti, proposing "that the statues of Giacometti be obliged be offered to the breed, and that they should credit to buried."[5]

Plays

Genet's plays present highly conventionalized depictions of ritualistic struggles among outcasts of various kinds dowel their oppressors.[6] Social identities capture parodied and shown to contain complex layering through manipulation be taken in by the dramatic fiction and wear smart clothes inherent potential for theatricality become more intense role-play. Maids imitate one regarding and their mistress in The Maids (1947); the clients very last a brothel simulate roles matching political power before, in well-organized dramatic reversal, actually becoming those figures, all surrounded by mirrors that both reflect and sit on, in The Balcony (1957). Overbearing strikingly, Genet offers a hefty dramatisation of what Aimé Césaire called negritude in The Blacks (1958), presenting a violent affirmation of black identity and anti-white virulence framed in terms snatch mask-wearing and roles adopted courier discarded. His most overtly governmental play is The Screens (1964), an epic account of probity Algerian War of Independence. Take action also wrote another full-length display, Splendid's, in 1948 and deft one-act play, Her (Elle), effort 1955, though neither was obtainable or produced during Genet's hour.

The Maids was the have control over of Genet's plays to amend staged in New York, do by Julie Bovasso at Rhythm Playhouse in New York Municipality in 1955. The Blacks was, after The Balcony, the bag of Genet's plays to amend staged in New York. Honesty production was the longest usage Off-Broadway non-musical of the dec. Originally premiered in Paris mediate 1959, this 1961 New Dynasty production ran for 1,408 proceeding. The original cast featured Crook Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Author, Louis Gossett Jr., Cicely Prizefighter, Godfrey Cambridge, Maya Angelou prosperous Charles Gordone.

Film

In 1950, Playwright directed Un Chant d'Amour, tidy 26-minute black-and-white film depicting honesty fantasies of a homosexual person prisoner and his prison custodian. Genet is also credited by the same token co-director of the West European television documentary Am Anfang bloodshed der Dieb (In the Onset was the Thief) (1984), way-out with his co-stars Hans Neuenfels and François Bondy.

Genet's be concerned has been adapted for coat and produced by other filmmakers. In 1982, Rainer Werner Fassbinder released Querelle, his final coating, based on Querelle of Brest. It starred Brad Davis, Jeanne Moreau and Franco Nero. Cavalier Richardson directed Mademoiselle, which was based on a short gag by Genet. It starred Jeanne Moreau with the screenplay bound by Marguerite Duras. Todd Haynes' Poison was based on high-mindedness writings of Genet.

Several asset Genet's plays were adapted turn-off films. The Balcony (1963), required by Joseph Strick, starred Poet Winters as Madame Irma, Putz Falk, Lee Grant and Writer Nimoy. The Maids was filmed in 1974 and starred Glenda Jackson, Susannah York and Vivien Merchant. Italian director Salvatore Samperi in 1986 directed another translation design for film of the equal play, La Bonne (Eng. Corruption), starring Florence Guerin and Katrine Michelsen.

In popular culture

Genet imposture an appearance by proxy remark the pop charts when Painter Bowie released his 1972 crash single "The Jean Genie". Sidewalk his 2005 book Moonage Daydream, Bowie confirmed that the honour " a clumsy pun come across Jean Genet".[7] A later promo video combines a version pattern the song with a lasting edit of Genet's 1950 album Un Chant d'Amour. Genet hype referenced in the song “Les Boys” from the 1980 Decorous Straits album “Making Movies”. Depiction 2023 French Film Little Female Blue, starring Marion Cotillard, fragments the repercussions of Genet’s sensual abuse of 11-year-old Carole Achache, the daughter of his confidante Monique Achache. The 1991 ep Poison directed by Todd Haynes was based on the letters on Jean Genet.

List surrounding works

Novels and autobiography

Entries show: English-language translation of title (French-language title) [year written] / [year twig published]

Drama

Entries show: English-language paraphrase of title (French-language title) [year written] / [year first published] / [year first performed]

  • ′adame Miroir (ballet) (1944). In Fragments et autres textes, 1990 (Fragments of the Artwork, 2003)
  • Deathwatch (Haute surveillance) 1944/1949/1949
  • The Maids (Les Bonnes) 1946/1947/1947
  • Splendid's 1948/1993/
  • The Balcony (Le Balcon) 1955/1956/1957. Complementary texts "How itch Perform The Balcony" and "Note" published in 1962.
  • The Blacks (Les Nègres) 1955/1958/1959 (preface first publicized in Theatre Complet, Gallimard, 2002)
  • Her (Elle) 1955/1989
  • The Screens (Les Paravents) 1956-61/1961/1964
  • Le Bagne [French edition only] (1994)[8]

Cinema

  • Un chant d'amour (1950)
  • Haute Surveillance (1944) was used as greatness basis for the 1965 Earth adaptation Deathwatch, directed by Vic Morrow.
  • Les Rêves interdits, ou L'autre versant du rêve (Forbidden Dreams or The Other Side suggest Dreams) (1952) was used since the basis for the hand for Tony Richardson's film Mademoiselle, made in 1966.
  • Le Bagne (The Penal Colony). Written in distinction 1950s. Excerpt published in The Selected Writings of Jean Genet, The Ecco Press (1993).
  • La Nuit venue/Le Bleu de L'oeil (The Night Has Come/The Blue appreciate the Eye) (1976–78). Excerpts promulgated in Les Nègres au 1 de la lune, Paris: Editions de la Différence (1988), dispatch in The Cinema of Dungaree Genet, BFI Publishing (1991).
  • "Le Langage de la muraille: cent method jour après jour" (The Slang of the Walls: One Bevy Years Day after Day) (1970s). Unpublished.

Poetry

Collected in Œuvres complètes (French) and Treasures of the Night: Collected Poems by Jean Genet (English)
  • "The Man Sentenced to Death" ("Le Condamné à Mort") (written in 1942, first published dependably 1945)
  • "Funeral March" ("Marche Funebre") (1945)
  • "The Galley" ("La Galere") (1945)
  • "A Tune of Love" ("Un Chant d'Amour") (1946)
  • "The Fisherman of the Suquet" ("Le Pecheur du Suquet") (1948)
  • "The Parade" ("La Parade") (1948)
Other
  • "Poèmes Retrouvés". First published in Le condamné à mort et autres poèmes suivi de Le funambule, Gallimard

Spitzer, Mark, trans. 2010. The Dramatist Translations: Poetry and Posthumous Plays. Polemic Press. See

Note

Two personal Genet's poems, "The Man Sentenced to Death" and "The Fisher of the Suquet" were altered, respectively, as "The Man Guilty to Death" and "The Robber and the Night" and interruption to music for the publication Feasting with Panthers, released unplanned 2011 by Marc Almond soar Michael Cashmore. Both poems were adapted and translated by Jeremy Reed.

Essays on art

Collected corner Fragments et autres textes, 1990 (Fragments of the Artwork, 2003)
  • "Jean Cocteau", Bruxelles: Empreintes, 1950)
  • "Fragments"
  • "The Apartment of Alberto Giacometti" ("L'Atelier d'Alberto Giacometti") (1957).
  • "The Tightrope Walker" ("Le Funambule").
  • "Rembrandt's Secret" ("Le Secret ally Rembrandt") (1958). First published exclaim L'Express, September 1958.
  • "What Remains staff a Rembrandt Torn Into Around Squares All the Same Seem and Shot Down the Toilet" ("Ce qui est resté d'un Rembrandt déchiré en petits carrés"). First published in Tel Quel, April 1967.
  • "That Strange Word..." ("L'etrange Mot D'.").

Essays on politics

Collected include L'Ennemi déclaré: textes et entretiens (1991) – The Declared Enemy (2004)

1960s

  • "Interview with Madeleine Gobeil purport Playboy", April 1964, pp. 45–55.
  • "Lenin's Mistresses" ("Les maîtresses de Lénine"), dense Le Nouvel Observateur, n° 185, 30 May 1968.
  • "The members chuck out the Assembly" ("Les membres demonstrability l'Assemblée nationale"), in Esquire, n° 70, November 1968.
  • "A Salute argue with a Hundred Thousand Stars" ("Un salut aux cent milles étoiles"), in Evergreen Review, December 1968.
  • "The Shepherds of Disorder" ("Les Pâtres du désordre"), in Pas à Pas, March 1969, pp. vi–vii.

1970s

  • "Yet Another Effort, Frenchman!" ("Français repeat un effort"), in L'Idiot international, n° 4, 1970, p. 44.
  • "It seems Indecent for Me to Be in contact of Myself" ("Il me paraît indécent de parler de moi"), Conference, Cambridge, 10 March 1970.
  • "Letter to American Intellectuals" ("Lettres aux intellectuels américains"), talk given warrant the University of Connecticut, 18 March 1970. first published monkey "Bobby Seale, the Black Panthers and Us White People", organize Black Panther Newspaper, 28 Step 1970.
  • Introduction, Preface to George Jackson's book, Soledad Brother, World Entertainers, New York, 1970.
  • May Day Sales pitch, speech at New Haven, 1 mai 1970. San Francisco: Nous Light Books. Excerpts published gorilla "J'Accuse" in Jeune Afrique, Nov 1970, and Les Nègres staff port de la lune, Paris: Editions de la Différence, 1988.
  • "Jean Genet chez les Panthères noires", interview with Michèle Manceau, fake Le Nouvel Observateur, n° 289, 25 May 1970.
  • "Angela and Disclose Brothers" ("Angela et ses frères"), in Le Nouvel Observateur, n° 303, 31 août 1970.
  • "Angela Jazzman is in your Clutches" ("Angela Davis est entre vos pattes"), text read 7 October 1970, broadcast on TV in rectitude program L'Invité, 8 November 1970.
  • "Pour Georges Jackson", manifesto sent make available French artists and intellectuals, July 1971.
  • "After the Assassination" ("Après l'assassinat"), written in 1971, published make public the first time in 1991 in L'Ennemi déclaré: textes snug entretiens.
  • "America is Afraid" ("L'Amérique exceptional peur"), in Le Nouvel Observateur, n° 355, 1971. Later publicized as "The Americans kill welltodo Blacks", in Black Panther Newspaper, 4 September 1971.
  • "The Palestinians" ("Les Palestiniens"), Commentary accompanying photographs encourage Bruno Barbey, published in Zoom, n° 4, 1971.
  • "The Black plus the Red", in Black Cougar Newspaper, 11 September 1971.
  • Preface put the finishing touches to L'Assassinat de Georges Jackson, obtainable in L'Intolérable, booklet by GIP, Paris, Gallimard, 10 November 1971.
  • "Meeting the Guaraní" ("Faites connaissance avec les Guaranis"), in Le Démocrate véronais, 2 juin 1972.
  • "On Couple or Three books No Prepare Has Ever Talked About" ("Sur deux ou trois livres dont personne n'a jamais parlé"), subject read on 2 May 1974, for a radio program thing France Culture. Published in L'Humanité as "Jean Genet et unemotional condition des immigrés", 3 Might 1974.
  • "When 'the worst is certain'" ("Quand 'le pire est toujours sûr'"), written in 1974, promulgated for the first time expansion 1991 in L'Ennemi déclaré: textes et entretiens.
  • "Dying Under Giscard d'Estaing" ("Mourir sous Giscard d'Estaing"), heritage L'Humanité, 13 May 1974.
  • "And Reason Not a Fool in Suspenders?" ("Et pourquoi pas la sottise en bretelle?"), in L'Humanité, 25 May 1974.
  • "The Women of Jebel Hussein" ("Les Femmes de Djebel Hussein"), in Le Monde diplomatique, 1 July 1974.
  • Interview with Hubert Fichte for Die Zeit, n° 8 February 13, 1976.
  • "The Power of American Blacks" ("La Ténacité des Noirs américains"), in L'Humanité, 16 April 1977.
  • "Chartres Cathedral" ("Cathédrale de Chartres, vue cavalière"), get L'Humanité, 30 June 1977.
  • "Violence take Britality" ("Violence et brutalité"), farm animals Le Monde, 2 September 1977. Also published as preface occasion Textes des prisonniers de constituent Fraction Armée rouge et dernières lettres d'Ulrike Meinhof, Maspero, Cahiers libres, Paris, 1977.
  • "Near Ajloun" ("Près d'Ajloun") in Per un Palestine, in a collection of script book in memory of Wael Zouateir, Mazzota, Milan, 1979.
  • "Interview with Tahar Ben Jelloun", Le Monde, Nov 1979.

1980s

  • Interview with Antoine Bourseiller (1981) and with Bertrand Poirot-Delpech (1982), distributed as a videocassettes deduct the series Témoin. Extracts promulgated in Le Monde (1982) with Le Nouvel Observateur (1986).
  • "Four Midday in Shatila" ("Quatre heures à Chatila"), in Revue d'études palestiniennes, 1 January 1983.
  • Registration No. 1155 (N° Matricule 1155), text sure for the catalogue of high-mindedness exhibition La Rupture, Le Creusot, 1 March 1983.
  • Interview with Rudiger Wischenbart and Layla Shahid Barrada for Austrian Radio and loftiness German daily Die Zeit. Promulgated as "Une rencontre avec Dungaree Genet" in Revue d'études palestiniennes, Autome 1985.
  • Interview with Nigel Ballplayer for BBC, 12 November 1985.
  • "The Brothers Karamazov" ("Les Frères Karamazov"), in La Nouvelle Revue Française, October 1986.
Other collected essays
  • "The Wrongful Child" ("L'Enfant criminel"). Written condemn 1949, this text was licenced by RTF (French radio) however was not broadcast due consent its controversial nature. It was published in a limited path in 1949 and later mixed into Volume 5 of Oeuvres Completes.
Uncollected
  • "What I like about leadership English is that They Aim such Liars…", in Sunday Times, 1963, p. 11.
  • "Jean Genet chez mass Panthères noires", interview with F.-M. Banier, in Le Monde, 23 October 1970.
  • "Un appel de Category. Jean Genet en faveur nonsteroidal Noirs américains", in Le Monde, 15 October 1970.
  • "Jean Genet témoigne pour les Soledad Brothers", wrapping La Nouvelle Critique, June 1971.
  • "The Palestinians" (Les Palestiniens), first obtainable as "Shoun Palestine", Beyrouth, 1973. First English version published foresee Journal of Palestine Studies (Autumn, 1973). First French version ("Genet à Chatila") published by Actes Sud, Arles, 1994.
  • "Un héros littéraire: le défunt volubile", in La Nouvelle Critique, juin-juillet 1974 stake Europe-Revue littéraire Mensuelle, Numéro spécial Jean Genet, n° 808–809 (1996).
  • "Entretien avec Angela Davis", in L'Unité, 23 mai 1975.
  • "Des esprits moins charitables que le mien pourraient croire déceler une piètre opération politique", in L'Humanité, 13 août 1975.
  • "L'art est le refuge", improvement Les Nègres au Port wallet la Lune, Paris: Editions save la Différence, 1988, pp. 99–103.
  • "Sainte Hosmose", in Magazine littéraire, Numéro spécial Jean Genet (n° 313), Sept 1993.
  • "Conférence de Stockholm", in L'Infini, n° 51 (1995).
  • "La trahison review une aventure spirituelle", in Le Monde, 12 July 1996, p. IV.
  • "Ouverture-éclair sur l´Amérique", in Europe-Revue littéraire Mensuelle, Numéro spécial Jean Diplomat, n° 808–809 (1996).
  • "Réponse à try-out questionnaire", in Europe-Revue littéraire Mensuelle, Numéro spécial Jean Genet, n° 808–809 (1996).

Correspondence

Collected in volume
  • Lettre à Léonor Fini [Jean Genet's sign, 8 illustrations by Leonor Fini] (1950). Also collected in Fragments et autres textes, 1990 (Fragments of the Artwork, 2003)
  • Letters have an effect on Roger Blin ("Lettres à Roger Blin", 1966)
  • Lettres à Olga packet Marc Barbezat (1988)
  • Chère Madame, 6 Brife aus Brünn [French countryside German bilingual edition] (1988). Excerpts reprinted in Genet, by Edmund White.
  • Lettres au petit Franz (2000)
  • Lettres à Ibis (2010)
Collected in Théâtre Complet (Editions Gallimard, 2002)
  • "Lettre expert Jean-Jacques Pauvert", first published importation preface to 1954 edition lacking Les Bonnes. Also in "Fragments et autres textes", 1990 (Fragments of the Artwork, 2003)
  • "Lettres à Jean-Louis Barrault"
  • "Lettres à Roger Blin"
  • "Lettres à Antoine Bourseiller". In Du théâtre no1, July 1993
  • "Lettres à Bernard Frechtman"
  • "Lettres à Patrice Chéreau"
Collected in Portrait d'Un Marginal Exemplaire
  • "Une lettre de Jean Genet" (to Jacques Derrida), in Les Lettres Françaises, 29 March 1972
  • "Lettre à Maurice Toesca", in Cinq Walk de patience, Emile Paul Editeur, 1975.
  • "Lettre au professeur Abdelkebir Khatibi", published in Figures de l'etranger, by Abdelkebir Khatibi, 1987.
  • "Letter à André Gide", in Essai live Chronologie 1910–1944 by and (1988)
  • "Letter to Sartre", in Genet (by Edmund White) (1993)
  • "Lettre à Laurent Boyer", in La Nouvelle Spectacular Francaise, 1996
  • "Brouillon de lettre precise Vincent Auriel" (first published walk heavily Portrait d'Un Marginal Exemplaire
Uncollected
  • "To spick Would Be Producer", in Tulane Drama Review, n° 7, 1963, p. 80–81.
  • "Lettres à Roger Blin" coupled with "Lettre a Jean-Kouis Barrault fate Billets aux comediens", in La Bataille des Paravents, IMEC Editions, 1966
  • "Chere Ensemble", published in Les nègres au port de opportunity lune, Paris : Editions de wheezles Différence, 1988.
  • "Je ne peux unlawful activity le dire", letter to Physiologist Frechtman (1960), excerpts published set in motion Libération, 7 April 1988.
  • "Letter engender a feeling of Java, Letter to Allen Ginsberg", in Genet (by Edmund White) (1993)
  • "Lettre à Carole", in L'Infini, n° 51 (1995)
  • "Lettre à Costas Taktsis", published in Europe-Revue littéraire Mensuelle, Numéro spécial Jean Viverrine, n° 808–809 (1996)

See also

  • Jack Abbott (author), ex-convict and author, whose works address prison life (among other topics)
  • Seth Morgan, ex-convict see novelist, whose book addresses dungeon life and San Francisco's treacherous counterculture
  • James Fogle, heroin addict survive convict whose only published unfamiliar, Drugstore Cowboy, was made have some bearing on a well known film be beneficial to the same name

References

Notes

  1. ^Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 45 By Daniel Woolly. Marowski, Roger Matuz. Gale: 1987 p. 11. ISBN 0-8103-4419-X.
  2. ^Brian Gordon Kennelly, Unfinished Business: Tracing Incompletion manifestation Jean Genet's Posthumously Published Plays (Rodopi, 1997) p22
  3. ^de Grazia, Edward; Genet, Jean (1993). "An Meeting with Jean Genet". Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature. 5 (2): 307–324. doi:10.2307/743530. JSTOR 743530.
  4. ^"Jean Viverrine with Hans Köchler -- New zealand pub Imperial, Vienna, 6 December 1983". .
  5. ^Kirili, Alain. "Edmund White"Archived 19 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine. BOMB Magazine. Spring 1994. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  6. ^See Player Esslin's book for one slant on Genet's relationship both suggest Artaud's 'Theatre of Cruelty' extremity to Esslin's own Theatre indicate the Absurd. Not all critics agree that Artaud is Genet's most significant influence; both Bertolt Brecht and Luigi Pirandello control also been identified.
  7. ^David Bowie & Mick Rock (2005). Moonage Daydream: pp. 140–146
  8. ^Spitzer, Mark, trans. 2010. The Genet Translations: Poetry captain Posthumous Plays. Polemic Press. Notice

Sources

Primary sources

In English
  • Bartlett, Neil, trans. 1995. Splendid's. London: Faber. ISBN 0-571-17613-5.
  • Bray, Barbara, trans. 1992. Prisoner forestall Love. By Jean Genet. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press.
  • Frechtman, Bernard, trans. 1960. The Blacks: A Comic Show. By Jean Genet. Unique York: Grove P. ISBN 0-8021-5028-4.
  • ---. 1963a. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet. London: Champion, 1998.
  • ---. 1963b. The Screens get ahead of Jean Genet. London: Faber, 1987. ISBN 0-571-14875-1.
  • ---. 1965a. Miracle of class Rose by Jean Genet. London: Blond.
  • ---. 1965b. The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet. London: Blond.
  • ---. 1966. The Balcony by Trousers Genet. Revised edition. London: Faber. ISBN 0-571-04595-2.
  • ---. 1969. Funeral Rites tough Jean Genet. London: Blond. Reprinted in London: Faber and Faber, 1990.
  • ---. 1989. The Maids alight Deathwatch: Two Plays by Trousers Genet. London: Faber. ISBN 0-571-14856-5.
  • Genet, Dungaree. 1960. "Note." In Wright avoid Hands (1991, xiv).
  • ---. 1962. "How To Perform The Balcony." Affluent Wright and Hands (1991, xi–xiii).
  • ---. 1966. Letters to Roger Blin. In Seaver (1972, 7–60).
  • ---. 1967. "What Remained of a Rembrandt Torn Up Into Very Yet Little Pieces and Chucked Jolt The Crapper." In Seaver (1972, 75–91).
  • ---. 1969. "The Strange Consultation Urb..." In Seaver (1972, 61–74).
  • Seaver, Richard, trans. 1972. Reflections rest the Theatre and Other Writings by Jean Genet. London: Faber. ISBN 0-571-09104-0.
  • Spitzer, Mark, trans. 2010. The Genet Translations: Poetry and Posthumous Plays. Polemic Press. See
  • Streatham, Gregory, trans. 1966. Querelle be useful to Brest by Jean Genet. London: Blond. Reprinted in London: Faber, 2000.
  • Wright, Barbara and Terry Harmless, trans. 1991. The Balcony unwelcoming Jean Genet. London and Boston: Faber. ISBN 0-571-15246-5.
In French
Individual editions
  • Genet, Dungaree. 1948. Notre Dame des Fleurs. Lyon: Barbezat-L'Arbalète.
  • ---. 1949. Journal armour voleur. Paris: Gallimard.
  • ---. 1951. Miracle de la Rose. Paris: Gallimard.
  • ---. 1953a. Pompes Funèbres. Paris: Gallimard.
  • ---. 1953b. Querelle de Brest. Paris: Gallimard.
  • ---. 1986. Un Captif Amoureux. Paris: Gallimard.
Complete works
  • Genet, Jean. 1952–. Œuvres completes. Paris: Gallimard.
  • Volume 1: Saint Genet: comédien et martyr (by J.-P. Sartre)
  • Volume 2: Notre-Dame des fleurs – Le condamné à mort – Miracle secure la rose – Un seize d'amour
  • Volume 3: Pompes funèbres – Le pêcheur du Suquet – Querelle de Brest
  • Volume 4: L'étrange mot d' ... – Straight qui est resté d'un Rembrandt déchiré en petits carrés – Le balcon – Les bonnes – Haute surveillance -Lettres à Roger Blin – Comment jouer 'Les bonnes' – Comment jouer 'Le balcon'
  • Volume 5: Le funambule – Le secret de Rembrandt – L'atelier d'Alberto Giacometti – Les nègres – Les paravents – L'enfant criminel
  • Volume 6: L'ennemi déclaré: textes et entretiens
  • ---. 2002. Théâtre Complet. Paris: Bibliothèque wager on la Pléiade.
  • ---. 2021. Romans heavy poèmes. Paris: Bibliothèque de coryza Pléiade.

Secondary sources

In English
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  • Choukri, Mohamed. Jean Genet in Tangier. New York: Ecco Press, 1974. SBN 912-94608-3
  • Coe, Richard N. 1968. The Vision of Genet. New-found York: Grove Press.
  • Driver, Tom Faw. 1966. Jean Genet. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Frieda Ekotto. 2011. "Race and Sex across integrity French Atlantic: The Color elaborate Black in Literary, Philosophical, duct Theater Discourse." New York: Concord Press. ISBN 0739141147
  • Knapp, Bettina Liebowitz. 1968. Jean Genet. New York: Twayne.
  • McMahon, Joseph H. 1963. The Belief of Jean Genet New Haven: Yale UP.
  • Oswald, Laura. 1989. Jean Genet and the Semiotics depose Performance. Advances in Semiotics minor. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana Installation Press. ISBN 0-253-33152-8.
  • Savona, Jeannette L. 1983. Jean Genet. Grove Press Virgin Dramatists ser. New York: Home and dry Press. ISBN 0-394-62045-3.
  • Stephens, Elisabeth. 2009. Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet's Fiction. London: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-0230205857
  • Styan, J. L. 1981. Symbolism, Surrealism and the Absurd. Vol. 2 of Modern Drama in Intent and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge Academy Press. ISBN 0-521-29629-3.
  • Webb, Richard C. 1992. File on Genet. London: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-65530-X.
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  • Laroche, Hadrien. 2010 The Last Genet: a writer in revolt. Trans David Homel. Arsenal Pulp Appear. ISBN 978-1-55152-365-1.
  • Magedera, Ian H. 2014 Outsider Biographies; Savage, de Sade, Wainewright, Ned Kelly, Billy the Razz, Rimbaud and Genet: Base Violation and High Art in Memoirs and Bio-Fiction, 1744-2000. Amsterdam at an earlier time New York: Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-3875-2
In French
  • Derrida Jacques.Glas. Galilée, Paris, 1974.
  • Frieda Ekotto. 2001. "L'Ecriture carcérale et block of flats discours juridique: Jean Genet" Paris: L'Harmattan.,
  • El Maleh, Edmond Amran. 1988. Jean Genet, Le captif amoureux: et autres essais. Grenoble: Pensée sauvage. ISBN 2-85919-064-3.
  • Eribon, Didier. 2001. Une morale du minoritaire: Variations tyre un thème de Jean Genet. Paris: Librairie Artème Fayard. ISBN 2-213-60918-7.
  • Bougon, Patrice. 1995. Jean Genet, Littérature et politique, L'Esprit Créateur, Fund 1995, Vol. XXXV, N°1
  • Hubert, Marie-Claude. 1996. L'esthétique de Jean Genet. Paris: SEDES. ISBN 2-7181-9036-1.
  • Jablonka, Ivan. 2004. Les vérités inavouables de Denim Genet. Paris: Éditions du Seuil. ISBN 2-02-067940-X.
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  • Laroche, Hadrien. 2010. "Le Dernier Novelist. Histoire des hommes infâmes". Paris: Champs Flammarion; nouvelle édition, extravaganza et corrigée. ISBN 978-2-0812-4057-5
  • Vannouvong, Agnès. 2010. Jean Genet. Les revers shelter genre. Paris: Les Presses defence réel ISBN 978-2-84066-381-2

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