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Jean Genet ( French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒənɛ]; 19 December 1910 – 15 April 1986) 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.
Jean Genet was a French criminal and social outcast turned writer who, as a novelist, transformed erotic and often obscene subject matter into a poetic vision of the universe and, as a dramatist, became a leading figure in the avant-garde theatre, especially the Theatre of the Absurd.
May 18, 2018 · Jean Genet >Dubbed "the Black Prince of letters," by his discoverer, Jean Cocteau [1], >the French novelist and playwright Jean Genet (1910-1986) was obsessed with >the illusory, perverse, and grotesque elements of human experience.
Apr 24, 2019 · Jean Genet (b. 19 December 1910–d. 15 April 1986) was a 20th-century French poet, novelist, playwright, film director, essayist, and political activist. His work is renowned for its literary experimentation and poetic intensity and for its unequivocal opposition to the norms of bourgeois culture.
T he French writer Jean Genet {zhuh-nay'}, b. Dec. 19, 1910, d. Apr. 15, 1986, was a novelist and exponent of the theater of the absurd. Discovered and championed by the existentialist Jean Paul Sartre, Genet was an orphan, thief, and homosexual who had spent most of his youth in prison.
In 1943, after once again being incarcerated following accusations of theft, Genet began to write seriously. He wrote novels, plays and poetry; taking much of his inspiration from his time in prison and his homosexual experiences whilst wandering through Europe.
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.
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Jean Genet opened his literary career with a small group of highly personal lyric poems, beginning with “Le Condamné à mort” (“The Man Condemned to Death”).
Jean Genet (pronounced [ʒɑ̃ ʒəˈnɛ] in French) (December 19, 1910 – April 15, 1986), was a French writer and later political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond ( homeless person) and petty criminal.
