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Jean Genet
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born
December 19, 1910
died
April 15, 1986
gender
male
place of birth
Paris, France
genre
Literature & Fiction, Politics, Gay & Lesbian
about this author
Jean Genet (December 19, 1910(1910-12-19) – April 15, 1986), was a prominent, controversial French writer and later political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing novels, plays, poems, and essays, including Querelle de Brest, The Thief's Journal, Our Lady of the Flowers, The Balcony, The Blacks and The Maids.
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Our Lady Of The Flowers by Jean Genet avg rating 4.03 — 423 ratings — published 1963 16 editions |
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The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet avg rating 3.95 — 342 ratings — published 1949 18 editions |
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Querelle by Jean Genet avg rating 4.07 — 220 ratings — published 1966 13 editions |
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The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays by Jean Genet by Jean Genet avg rating 3.97 — 222 ratings — published 1954 3 editions |
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The Balcony by Jean Genet avg rating 3.86 — 196 ratings — published 1958 16 editions |
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Funeral Rites by Jean Genet avg rating 4.21 — 149 ratings — published 1953 11 editions |
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Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet avg rating 4.23 — 136 ratings — published 1951 13 editions |
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The Blacks: A Clown Show by Jean Genet avg rating 3.76 — 91 ratings — published 1969 11 editions |
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Prisoner of Love (New York Review Books Classics) by Jean Genet avg rating 4.36 — 59 ratings — published 1990 10 editions |
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The Screens by Jean Genet avg rating 4.13 — 31 ratings — published 1962 4 editions |
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"She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished dolls, sweet sluts, instant princesses, hot numbers, great lays, succulent morsels, everybody's darlings . . . "
— Jean Genet (Querelle)
— Jean Genet (Querelle)
"First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You .... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it all up. ..."
— Jean Genet
— Jean Genet
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