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	Jean Genet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Genet deserted in 1936 and spend a period as a vagabond, petty thief and male prostitute across Europe recounted in The Thief's Journal (1949).
		Jean Cocteau (French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963)) met Genet and was impressed by his writing.
		Genet's explicit and often deliberately provocative portrayal of homosexuality was such that by 1951 his work had been banned in the United States.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jean_genet.htm (981 words)

	Jean Genet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jean Genet (1910-1986) was a prominent, sometimes infamous, French writer and later political activist.
		Genet's explicit and often deliberately provocative portrayal of homosexuality was such that by 1951 his work was banned in the United States.
		Genet directed Un Chant d'Amour in 1950, a 26 minute fl and white film depicting the fantasies of a gay male prisoner and his prison warden.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Genet (1189 words)

	Jean Genet Biography (1910-1986)
		Jean Genet was born on December 19, 1910, the illegitimate son of a Parisian prostitute, and orphaned seven months later.
		From 15 to 18 Genet was in the Mettray penitentiary, a place of hard labour, where a code of love, honour, gesture and justice was enforced by the inmates, and where his sexual awakening occurred.
		Genet wrote of the gay world, without apology or explanation, revealing beauty in the harsh world in which his characters lived loved and died.
	www.leninimports.com /jean_genet.html (646 words)

	Genet, Jean on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Facets of artifice: rhythms in the theater of Jean Genet, and the painting, drawing, and sculpture of Alberto Giacometti.
		Jean Genet en 1981 à Paris Le poème de Jean Genet "Le condamné à mort" a inspiré une oeuvre avec partie chantée au composi.
		Jean Genet en 1981 à Paris Une nouvelle pièce de Jean Genet "Les nègres" est transposée à l'opéra par le compositeur franç.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Genet-J1e.asp (731 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Genet, Jean
		Genet's fidelity to outcasts and the socially marginal, his simultaneous criticism of and participation in radical politics, his obsession with role-playing and identity, and his stylized violence and obscenity anticipate post-modern apprehensions and techniques.
		Although Genet's revolt is deeply rooted in his awareness of his "deviant" sexuality, his political work was not predicated on his personal identity; instead, Genet worked on surmounting a simple affirmation of identity and forging a general coalition of socially disaffected groups.
		Genet realized early the possibilities of refusal; his work is obsessed with transforming everyday objects--the vaseline confiscated by prison guards, the pin-ups of criminals placed on prison walls--into minitheaters of insurrection staged with minimal means.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/genet_j.html (741 words)

	AllRefer.com - Jean Genet (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Jean Genet[zhAN zhunA´] Pronunciation Key, 1910–86, French dramatist.
		Deserted by his parents as an infant, Genet spent much of his early life in reformatories and prisons.
		In 1948 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for theft, but he was pardoned through the efforts of important French writers, including Gide, Sartre, and Cocteau.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Genet-Je.html (318 words)

	Prisoner of Hate: Jean Genet and Palestine (Edmund White) by Martin Kramer
		That book, which canonized Genet at the age of forty-two, purported to be an “existential psychoanalysis,” based on Sartre’s lengthy conversations with his subject: an abandoned child, vagabond thief, army deserter, and homosexual prostitute who wrote five remarkable books in prison that swept him to the summit of French letters.
		Genet described himself as “enthralled” by the Palestinian hijacking of civilian airliners to Jordan in August and (“Black”) September, 1970; a month later, he was with the fedayeen in northern Jordan, at the invitation of Yasir Arafat.
		Genet saw Israelis as “master manipulators of the media as well as of brainwashing techniques, but his objections are political, not racist.
	www.geocities.com /martinkramerorg/Genet.htm (2585 words)

	LitWeb.net
		Genet was born in Paris, the illigitimate son of a woman who abandoned him to the Assistance Publique, an organization that supervises the care of unwanted children.
		Genet meditates the meaning of imprisonment, and when a murderer named Harcamore is executed, Genet ascends to paradise in the moment of execution.
		Other writers, like François Mauriac, criticized Genet for being a prisoner of his own world of crime, where the author 'goes around and around like a squirrel in a cage, imprisoned in the dungeon of a vice from which he cannot escape'.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/genet_jean.html (858 words)

	Jean Genet
		Jean Genet, the illegitimate son of a Parisian prostitute, was born on October 19, 1910, and orphaned seven months later.
		From ages 15 to 18, Genet spent an impressionable period at the Mettray penitentiary, a place of hard labor, where a code of love, honor, gesture and justice was enforced by the inmates; and where his sexual awakening occurred.
		While he was in prison Genet had been writing and publishing, and his growing literary reputation induced a group of leading French authors to petition for his pardon, which was granted in 1948 by the president of France...
	www.queertheory.com /histories/g/genet_jean.htm (712 words)

	Jean Genet (1910 - 1986)
		Genet's stature as an original and important writer was cemented with Sartre's study of him in the work Saint Genet.
		Genet, like Artaud, believed the theatre should be an incendiary event, and he cultivated precise ideas about the care with which his spectacles should be mounted.
		Genet portrayed the gay world openly, without apology or explanation, showing it as poetic rather than sordid, at a time when many authors were mounting pleas of "sympathy" toward homosexuality.
	www.heimdallr.ch /Art/genetGB.html (659 words)

	autodafe.org - Leila Shahid, Jean Genet and the Position of Sudden Departure
		This episode quite amused Jean, and he grasped the relation between what was going on and the meaning of the embroideries, which he had first seen on the bodices of women in Amman, then in my mother's living-room in Rabat, and again on the Beirut balcony at the moment the Israeli army invaded.
		Jean's life comes full circle: it begins somewhere with public assistance, passes through rebellion and prison, goes toward the East when he is a soldier, returns toward the East with the Palestinians, and ends in front of the corpses he finds at his feet in Chatila.
		Genet always put himself "en position de départ soudain" as he put it in Chatila, in order to abandon the culture in which he was born, the language in which he was born, to go toward another.
	www.mafhoum.com /press3/92C41.htm (2801 words)

	Jean Genet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Discovered and championed by the existentialist Jean Paul Sartre, Genet was an orphan, thief, and homosexual who had spent most of his youth in prison.
		Genet's plays are the finest products of his art, mature reappraisals of the themes treated in his novels.
		Genet is the inventor of a highly personal metaphoric imagery with a unique structure of mysterious relationships and analogies and an extraordinary violence and cruelty that produce energetically rhythmic dramatic sequences.
	members.aol.com /CazadoraKE/private/Philo/Beckett/genet.htm (322 words)

	NYRB: Jean Genet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Abandoned by his mother at seven months, he was raised in state institutions and charged with his first crime when he was ten.
		After spending many of his teenage years in a reformatory, Genet enrolled in the Foreign Legion, though he later deserted, turning to a life of thieving and pimping that resulted in repeated jail terms and, eventually, a sentence of life imprisonment.
		Genet's final masterpiece, written and rewritten on his deathbed, is a lyrical and philosophical voyage to the bloody intersection of oppression, terror, and desire at the heart of the contemporary world.
	www.nybooks.com /nyrb/authors/5724 (163 words)

	French Culture \| Books \| Jean Genet: Prisoner of Love (New York Review Books 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Prisoner of Love, written some ten years later, when many of the men Genet had known had been killed, and he himself was dying, is a beautifully observed description of that time and those men as well as a reaffirmation of the author's commitment not only to the Palestinian revolution but to rebellion itself.
		For Genet's most overtly political book is also his most personal-the last step in the unrepentantly sacrilegious pilgrimage first recorded in The Thief's Journal, and a searching meditation, packed with visions, ruses, and contradictions, on such life-and-death issues as the politics of the image and the seductive and treacherous character of identity.
		Genet's final masterpiece is a lyrical and philosophical voyage to the bloody intersection of oppression, terror, and desire at the heart of the contemporary world.
	www.frenchculture.org /books/release/fiction/genetprisoner.html (372 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Jean Genet
		Bio: French novelist, playwright and poet Jean Genet was born in Paris on December 19, 1910.
		Genet's fictionalized and distant account of his rambles through France, Czechoslavakia, Germany and elsewhere in the '30s and '40s, covering his time in prison, his relationships with men such as the one-armed Stilitano, along with erotic accounts of his lovers during the period, and interspersed with meditation and daydreams.
		Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady of the Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictional work.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/JeanGeneteBooks.htm (461 words)

	College Literature: Ben Jelloun, Jean Genet, and cultural identity in The Street for Just One: Alberto Giacometti
		Genet, by this time in his life, had moved from the period of most of his major literary works, novels such as Lady of the Flowers and The Thief's Journal and plays (The Maids, The Blacks, The Screens), to one of greater involvement in political causes.
		Genet's and Ben Jelloun's friendship, which lasted until Genet's death in 1986, was grounded in their common concern for Arab people, including immigrant workers in France.
		Genet says that it is Giacometti's capacity to see the suffering which we all have in common and to communicate it back to us that makes the artist's work so effective and important.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3709/is_200304/ai_n9202493 (1123 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Culture \| An infinite requiem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Helpless and without hope: this is how Genet seems to like his Palestinians; that, in being part of the revolution he felt he was living "in his own memory" is the core of his sympathy, unconditional and ultimately of no use.
		It is this distance, his self-awareness, that makes Genet's account of the revolution so relevant: neither patriotism nor reason is brought into play; only the "incredible fact" of his being among them, like a shadow, colours his awareness of their suffering.
		Genet was right, however, for, even as General- Prime Minister Sharon's broad grin gives off the thick white smell of death, we know the final destruction of the Palestinian people is not nearly about to take place.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/558/cu1.htm (745 words)

	Jean Genet: the apostle of inversion by H. J. Kaplan
		Jean Genet: the apostle of inversion by H. Kaplan
		But Jean Genet knew—because he was a poet and because he was literally and figuratively locked up with them and ceaselessly dreamed of them.
		Like his fictional heroes, Genet is always dressing up, acting out; and the one great constant of his life is his refusal to be dominated and determined by his nature and the given social order—locked up, as it were, within his preordained persona.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/12/nov93/genet.htm (865 words)

	Wikinfo \| Jean Genet
		Jean Genet (born illegitimately on December 19, 1910 in Paris, died April 15, 1986 in Paris) was a novelist, playwright, and poet.
		Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Cocteau, and Pablo Picasso found his work so brilliant, that eventually he was pardoned in 1948.
		Genet was also involved in radical politics, including supporting the Black Panthers, and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Jean_Genet (326 words)

	Ken Kesey and Jean Genet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Genet remarked that artistic and political revolutions do not take place at the same time, that revolutionary political messages are often presented in a conventional academic style.
		Jean Genet met Jane Fonda, who gave him her phone number; as Roger Vadim's ex-wife and the star of several French films (including Barbarella), she was fluent in French.
		In Oakland, California, the birthplace of the Panther movement, Genet's friends decided he was not well enough dressed to represent their movement (the Panthers themselves were responding to each new downturn in their fortunes by being even better dressed, even more disciplined).
	www.ralphmag.org /BB/black-panthers.html (1593 words)

	Powell's Books - Jean Genet by Stephen Barber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		Genet's works have been hugely influential for a vast array of writers, filmmakers, choreographers, and directors, especially at moments of social crisis; thus Genet's life is not only at the root of his own work but also that of many important artists of the twentieth century.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Jean Genet (Critical Lives): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Intended as an accessible and challenging introduction to Jean Genet, this new short biography and critical work cuts directly to the essence of Genet's life, a life of extraordinary spectacle that was always profoundly entangled with his work.
		Genet's work is a distillation of preoccupations and reinventions of crucial matters - sex, desire, death and revolution - all of which became mediated in the form of his own travels, imprisonments, sexual and emotional relationships, political engagements and protests.
		Genet's novels, theatre works and film projects have been hugely influential for a vast array of writers, film-makers, choreographers and theatre directors, especially at moments of social crisis.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1861891784 (400 words)

	patti smith on antonin artaud and jean genet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Genet, who was writing in the Forties and Fifties, I read as a teenager.
		It was Edmund White, his biographer, who suggested that I might be part of the Artaud and Genet season at the ICA [Institute for Contemporary Arts, London], and I was honoured to be asked.
		All three of these artists, Artaud, Genet and Mapplethorpe, took very complex aspects of the human condition -- whether it was homosexuality or thievery or madness -- and magnified it in their work.
	www.oceanstar.com /patti/poetry/artaud.htm (396 words)

	Vitro Nasu » Blog Archive » Jean Genet
		Jean Genet was born on Dec 19, 1910, a Sagittarius with Moon in Leo, a firely combination shared by Jane Fonda.
		Genet met Jane Fonda, who gave him her phone number; as Roger Vadim’s ex-wife and the star of several French films (including Barbarella), she was fluent in French.
		Here is a Genet site which is sunny and light, unusual for Genet followers who tend to emphasize his dark and deviant side.
	www.mutanteggplant.com /vitro-nasu/index.php?p=12 (500 words)

	Jean Genet -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Genet, an illegitimate child abandoned by his mother, Gabrielle Genet, was raised by a family of peasants.
		Because Genet in 1948 was convicted of theft for the 10th time and would have faced automatic life imprisonment if convicted again, a delegation of well-known writers appealed on his behalf to the president of the French republic, and he was “pardoned in advance.”
		Genet, a rebel and an anarchist of the most extreme sort, rejected almost all forms of social discipline or political commitment.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9036392 (457 words)

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