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  1. 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 ...

  2. Journal du voleur (autobiographie, 1949) Signature. modifier - modifier le code - modifier Wikidata. Jean Genet, né le 19 décembre 1910 à Paris VI e arrondissement et mort le 14 avril 1986 à Paris XIII e arrondissement, est un écrivain, poète et auteur dramatique français.

  3. The Thief's Journal (Journal du voleur, published in 1949) is a novel by Jean Genet. Although autobiographical to some degree, Genets exploitation of poetic language results in an ambiguity throughout the text.

  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. 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.

  6. www.encyclopedia.com › french-literature-biographies › jean-genetJean Genet | Encyclopedia.com

    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.

  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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