Paris Review Daily Publishes Excerpt of New Introduction, by Patti Smith, to Jean Genet's The Thief's Journal.

Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Jean Genet (French: ; () 19 December 1910 – 15 April 1986 ()) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist.Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing. By Harriet Staff. Thoughts on: Genet, Mailer, & the New Paternalism June 1, 1961. "Revolt is something I allow myself", said Jean Genet in 1975. His major works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Blacks, The Maids and The Screens. Patti Smith's introduction to the new edition of Jean Genet's The Thief’s Journal (Grove Atlantic, this month, originally published 1949), "his most exquisite piece of autobiographical fiction," is … An imaginary biography of Jean Genet, poet and high priest of evil. Stephen Cox. 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.

Throughout the 1950s he devoted himself to theater, writing the boldly experimental and increasingly … Between 1944 and 1948, Jean Genet wrote four novels—Our Lady of the Flowers, Miracle of the Rose, Funeral Rites, and Querelle—and the scandalizing memoir A Thief’s Journal. He is a very great poet, linked to other poets by the brotherhood of the brow, and to men by the heart. Short film from 1950 in which Jean Genet's poetry is translated into silent and B&W moving images that still resonate. Issue/Author. Jean Genet (pronounced [ʒɑ̃ ʒəˈnɛ] in French) (December 19, 1910 – April 15, 1986), was a French writer and later political activist.Early in his life he was a vagabond (homeless person) and petty criminal.Later in life, Genet wrote novels, plays, poems, and essays, including Querelle, The Thief's Journal, Our Lady of the Flowers, The Balcony, The Blacks and The Maids [1] It was some time around the end of 1944 when, through the model Édouard Dermit, Caillaux met the author and poet Jean Genet. Democracy's Discontents (review-essay) William Connolly. Moroccan youth, 1938. Jean Cocteau? Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. Issues > Volume 16 > Volume 16 Number 2; Authors > Connolly, William; Keyword Sandel, American politics, civic republicanism, pluralism. Born in Paris in 1910, raised and humiliated in an approved school, a pederast and thief who has been to prison 14 times and expelled from five European countries. The Devil's Reading List . Poetry News. A classic.

… Roland Caillaux was fortunate enough to inherit a considerable sum of money from his parents, so was able to live a comfortable life free of financial constraint, and enjoy his friendships with the group of like-minded gay Parisian men which included … Issue/Author. Issues > Volume 16 > Volume 16 Number 2; Authors > Barney, Natalie; Keyword poetry. Amina Cain writes about Jean Genet's play, The Maids, for Paris Review Daily. Isola di Capri (poetry) Natalie Barney.