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Jean Genet (bahasa Prancis: [ʒɑ̃ ʒənɛ]; (19 Desember 1910 – 15 April 1986) adalah novelis, dramawan, penyair, eseis, dan aktivis politik berkebangsaan Prancis. Awal kehidupannya adalah seorang pengembara dan pelaku kriminal kecil-kecilan, tetapi kemudian dia memilih menjadi seorang penulis.
Apr 11, 2024 · Jean Genet (born Dec. 19, 1910, Paris, France—died April 15, 1986, Paris) 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.
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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 playwright, novelist, essayist, poet, and political activist. Born to a prostitute, Genet started his life as a vagabond and a petty thief. However, his writings in prison revealed his true forté. He was patronized by writers such as Jean Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sartre.
May 18, 2018 · Dubbed "the Black Prince of letters," by his discoverer, Jean Cocteau, the French novelist and playwright Jean Genet (1910-1986) was obsessed with the illusory, perverse, and grotesque elements of human experience. His works present the world of the isolated and despairing outcast.
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.
White’s book is some 800 pages long, rivaling the girth of Jean-Paul Sartre’s obese “preface” to the 1952 Gallimard edition of Genet, Saint Genet: Comédien et Martyr. Yet White begins on a note of oblique circumspection, as if telegraphing his doubts about narrating this prodigious life story: “Jean Genet had remarkable powers of ...
