Jean Genet

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An engaging and challenging introduction to Jean Genet, this concise biography of the French writer and his work cuts directly to the intersection of thought and life that was essential to Genet's creativity. Arguing that Genet's life was an extraordinary spectacle in which the themes of his most revolutionary works were played out, Stephen Barber gives both the work and its singular inspiration in Genet's life their full due. Abandoned, arrested, and repeatedly incarcerated, Genet, who died in 1986, led a life that could best be described as a tour of the underworld of the twentieth century.;Genet Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Introduction; 1. Jack's Hotel; 2. Jean Genet, the Bastard; 3. The Criminal Child; 4. The Mettray Colony; 5. Crossings of Europe; 6. Genet's Prisons; 7. Our Lady of the Flowers; 8. Miracle of the Rose; 9. Genet in Occupied Paris; 10. Jean Cocteau: Flaming Creature; 11. Funeral Rites; 12. Genet in Liberated Paris; 13. Querelle of Brest; 14. Genet's Hotel Rooms; 15. The Thief's Journal; 16. Lucien, Java, Decimo; 17. Nico Papatakis and Genet; 18. Un Chant d'Amour; 19. The Penal Colony; 20. Genet's Film Projects; 21. The Cock and the Anus; 22. The Screens.