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Jean Genet

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Biography

Name: Jean Genet
Variant Name: Jean Genot
Birth Date: December 19, 1910
Death Date: 1986
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, playwright

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Biography of Jean Genet
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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...
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Biography of Jean Genet
10,281 words, approx. 34 pages
After Jean Genet's death in a modest Parisian hotel room, after a long bout with throat cancer, Jack Lang, the former minister of culture, said: "Jean Genet has left us, and with him, a black sun that enlightened the seamy side of things. Jean Genet...


Quotations
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Jean Genet Quotes
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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Genet, Jean
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(born Dec. 19, 1910, Paris, France—died April 15, 1986, Paris) French novelist and dramatist. An illegitimate child abandoned by his mother, Genet began to write while imprisoned for burglary. His first novel, Our Lady of the Flowers (1944),...
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Jean Genet Information
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News and Journals
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The Independent - London
Underrated: The case for Jean Genet
06/19/1995: 414 words, approx. 1 pages
Jean Genet (1910-1986) wrote a handful of miraculous novels in his late thirties and early forties after a life spent in orphanages, reform schools and, finally, jail. A thief and prostitute from an early age, Genet wrote of a life of vagrancy and crime...
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The Washington Post
Jean Genet: The Miracle of the Prose
11/14/1993: 1,153 words, approx. 4 pages
GENET A Biography By Edmund White Knopf. 728 pp. $35 IN THIS extraordinary biography by Edmund White, the life and works of the French writer Jean Genet (1910-1986) are laid out with precision, tact and luminous intelligence. Although Anglo-American readers...
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AP News
Actor Roscoe Lee Browne dies in LA at 81
4/12/2007: 521 words, approx. 2 pages
Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination, has died. He was 81.Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after a long battle with cancer, said Alan Nierob, a spokesman for the family.Browne's...
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AP News
Actor Roscoe Lee Browne dies in LA
4/11/2007: 521 words, approx. 2 pages
Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination, has died. He was 81.Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after a long battle with cancer, said Alan Nierob, a spokesman for the family.Browne's...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Stathis Gourgouris
18,382 words, approx. 61 pages
In the following essay, Gourgouris examines Genet's poetics through his widely known and embraced identity as a criminal and his later association with revolutionary groups.
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Critical Essay by Gene A. Plunka
9,243 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Plunka describes Genet's use of ethnological rites of passage in Les Nègres.
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Critical Essay by Leslie Katz
7,886 words, approx. 26 pages
in the following essay, Katz explores Genet's personal involvement in his work, providing a comprehensive background on the author's perspective.
 


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