![]() ![]() While he received excellent grades in school, his childhood involved a series of attempts at running away and incidents of petty theft.Īfter the death of his foster mother, Genet was placed with an elderly couple but remained with them less than two years. ![]() His foster family was headed by a carpenter and, according to Edmund White's biography, was loving and attentive. Thereafter Genet was raised in the provincial town of Alligny-en-Morvan, in the Nièvre department of central France. Genet's mother was a prostitute who raised him for the first seven months of his life before placing him for adoption. His major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens. ![]() In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. Jean Genet ( French: ( )19 December 1910 – ( )15 April 1986) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Theatre of Cruelty, erotic, theatre, absurdistĬrime, homosexuality, sadomasochism, existentialism ![]()
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