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Informationen zum Autor Jean Genet was born in Paris in 1910. An illegitimate child who never knew his parents! he was abandoned to the Public Assistance Authorities. He was ten when he was sent to a reformatory for stealing; thereafter he spent time in the prisons of nearly every country he visited in thirty years of prowling through the European underworld. With ten convictions for theft in France to his credit he was! the eleventh time! condemned to life imprisonment. Eventually he was granted a pardon by President Auriol as a result of appeals from France's leading artists and writers led by Jean Cocteau.$$$His first novel! Our Lady of the Flowers ! was written while he was in prison! followed by Miracle of the Rose ! the autobiographical The Thief's Journal ! Querelle of Brest and Funeral Rites . He wrote six plays: The Balcony ! The Blacks ! The Screens ! The Maids ! Deathwatch and Splendid's (the manuscript of which was rediscovered only in 1993). Jean Genet died in 1986. Klappentext The 1966 staging in Paris of Jean Genet's The Screens by the Jean-Louis Barrault-Madeleine Renaud Company was highly controversial. This volume contains two essays by Genet! originally published in the French periodical Un Tel! giving his striking and highly personal views on life and art. Zusammenfassung The 1966 staging in Paris of Jean Genet's The Screens by the Jean-Louis Barrault-Madeleine Renaud Company was highly controversial. This volume contains two essays by Genet, originally published in the French periodical Un Tel, giving his striking and highly personal views on life and art.
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Jean Genet was born in Paris in 1910. An illegitimate child who never knew his parents, he was abandoned to the Public Assistance Authorities. He was ten when he was sent to a reformatory for stealing; thereafter he spent time in the prisons of nearly every country he visited in thirty years of prowling through the European underworld. With ten convictions for theft in France to his credit he was, the eleventh time, condemned to life imprisonment. Eventually he was granted a pardon by President Auriol as a result of appeals from France's leading artists and writers led by Jean Cocteau.$$$His first novel,
Our Lady of the Flowers, was written while he was in prison, followed by
Miracle of the Rose, the autobiographical
The Thief's Journal,
Querelle of Brest and
Funeral Rites. He wrote six plays:
The Balcony,
The Blacks,
The Screens,
The Maids,
Deathwatch and
Splendid's (the manuscript of which was rediscovered only in 1993). Jean Genet died in 1986.
