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.


Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays by Jean Genet. 4.6 out of 5 stars 12. Jean Genet $3.99 - $14.30 Jean Genet has 82 books on Goodreads with 67015 ratings. The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays (Genet, Jean) by Jean Genet and Jean-Paul Sartre. Books Advanced Search New Releases Best Sellers & More Children's Books Textbooks Textbook Rentals Best Books of the Month 1-16 of 348 results for Books : Jean Genet Skip to main search results Eligible for Free Shipping. 64 $15.99 $15.99. Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. 1-16 of 741 results for Books: "jean genet" Skip to main search results Amazon Prime. Kindle $9.64 $ 9. The two plays collected in this volume represent Genet’s first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify.

Jean Genet’s most popular book is Our Lady of the Flowers.