SAINT GENET by Jean-Paul Sartre 625 pages. Braziller. $8.50. OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS by Jean Genet. 318 pages. Grove. $6.50. “Jean Genet is an artist,” proclaimed the President of the French Republic ...

“What is still called American dynamism is an endless trembling.” That is Jean Genet’s prophetic declaration, written for a speech he delivered on May 1, 1970 at Yale University, before an audience of ...

Jean Genet (1910-86) wrote in fragments, beatific subsets of his imagination where crime and beauty blur in a single artistic tableau. "Be a Sublime whore," he commands his muse, an imagined entity ...

Iconic writer Jean Genet directed his first and only film in 1950, the 25-minute-long and homoerotic 'Un chant d'amour', which was banned for many years.

Stendhal on Correggio, Baudelaire on Guys, Zola on Manet, Proust on Moreau. It’s a long-standing practice, French poets and novelists taking up art criticism. In the 20th century, the roster continues ...

MIRACLE OF THE ROSE by Jean Genet. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. 344 pages. Grove Press. $7.50. The literature that emerges from prison is as various as Mein Kampf and Pilgrim’s Progress. But the ...

Something of Jean Genet’s original, subversive spirit has been resurrected in this highly charged revival of his 1947 classic The Maids, a co-production between Jermyn Street Theatre and Reading Rep.

About to dive into 'Jean Genet: An Interview with Antoine Bourseiller' tonight? Here’s where you can watch it, including platforms and services with rental, purchase, and subscription options, so you ...

Jean Genet was born the illegitimate child of a prostitute who spent a majority of his youth wandering between the prison systems of Europe for theft, smuggling and male prostitution. As a writer, he ...