Saint Genet : actor and martyr
- Title
- Saint Genet : actor and martyr
- Description
- First published in French in 1952, this biography of Jean Genet (1910-1986) is shown here in English translation. Written by one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers and writers Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), this work is the first volume of and introduction to ‘The Complete Works of Genet’. Considering him a man out of his time, Sartre outlines Genet’s life from his birth and abandonment as a foundling child, through his times as a thief, prisoner, vagrant, sex worker and later, playwright and novelist. Genet was also an out gay man who both wrote about and was imprisoned for this part of his life. Two works by Genet, ‘Querelle of Brest’ and ‘Treasures of the Night – The Collected Poems of Jean Genet’, were also seized during the ‘Operation Tiger’ raids.
- Creator
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
- Location
- London (England)
- Publisher
- WH Allen & Co
- Date
- 1964
- Tags
- Bernard Frechtman (Translator)
- Gay Biographies
- Gay Men
- Jean Genet (1910-1986)
- LGBTQ+ Biographies
- LGBTQ+ Prisoners
- LGBTQ+ Sex Workers
- Rights
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