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    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.

  2. 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.

  3. Paris, France. Jean Genet (December 19, 1910 – April 15, 1986), was a prominent, sometimes infamous, French writer and later political activist. Early in his life, he was a vagabond and petty criminal; later in life, Genet wrote novels, plays, poems, and essays, including Querelle, The Thief's Journal, Our Lady of the Flowers, The Balcony ...

  4. 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.

  5. 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 work, much of it considered scandalous when it first appeared, is now placed among the classics of modern literature and has been translated and performed ...

  6. Presentation. The exhibition. It has been thirty years since the death of Jean Genet, one of the most flamboyant and most rebellious of twentieth century writers. The Mucem is paying tribute to this poet of freedom and foreign lands, who began his work in prison and finished on the banks of Jordan. The exhibition is rooted in this region that ...

  7. 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.

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