Mettray jean genet biography

Jean Genet (December 19, – April 15, ), was a prominent, sometimes infamous, French writer and later political activist. Early in his life, he was a vagabond 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. Genet's works represent a critique of values, turning them on their head.

The Balcony takes place in a brothel between prostitutes and patrons.

Mettray jean genet biography

The Maids is based on the infamous Papin sisters, who murdered their employer and daughter in a scandalous affair in The Thief's Journal is a fictional autobiographical account of Genet's journeys across Europe, structured around a series of homosexual affairs.

Genet was a minor cause celebre for his challenge to social norms.

Life

Genet's mother was a young prostitute who raised him for the first year of his life before putting him up for adoption. Thereafter, G