A meticulously researched biography of jean genet, one of frances most notorious writers. Read pdf genet edmund white online, read in mobile or kindle. Acclaimed novelist and essayist edmund white illuminates genet s experiences in the worlds of crime, homosexuality, politics, and high culture, and gives a compelling analysis of genet s plays, novels, and essays. Bastard, thief, prostitute, jailbird, jean genet was one of french literature s sacred monsters in works from our lady of the flowers to the screens, he created a scandalous personal mythology while savaging the conventions of his society his career was a series of calculated shocks marked by feuds, rootlessness, and the embrace of unpopular causes and outcast peoples nbastard, thief. Moving from genet s illegitimate birth in 1910 to his foster childhood in a farming. His actions on arriving in the united states led to a major political and international incident, which was termed the citizen genet affair. This biography aims to uncover the truth about one of the centurys strangest and most mysterious literary rebels. Download pdf genet edmund white ebook for free in pdf and epub format. See all books authored by edmund white, including a boys own story, and the flaneur. Edmond charles genet january 8, 1763 july 14, 1834, also known as citizen genet, was the french envoy to the united states during the french revolution.
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