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Apr 16, 1986 · Jean Genet - playwright, novelist, poet and one of the revolutionary artists of the 20th century - died yesterday morning in the Paris hotel where he lived. He was 75 years old.
Aug 13, 2018 · The Thief’s Journal. By Patti Smith. August 13, 2018. Arts & Culture. In the first stirring lines of The Thief’s Journal, Jean Genet bares his youthful aspirations, his doctrine as a poet, and his tenets as a man. He offers a single sentence—“Convicts’ garb is striped pink and white”—then embarks on a paragraph of Proustian ...
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.
