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    Jean Genet (French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒənɛ]; (1910-12-19)19 December 1910 – (1986-04-15)15 April 1986) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political...
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    murder had a significant influence on French intellectuals such as Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jacques Lacan, and was considered...
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  • The Blacks (play) (category Plays by Jean Genet)
    The Blacks (French: Les Nègres) is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. Published in 1958, it was first performed in a production directed by Roger...
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  • protagonist inspired by Iggy Pop, and the title being an allusion to author Jean Genet. One of Bowie's most famous tracks, it was promoted with a film clip featuring...
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    carnivorans. The common genet is the only genet present in Europe and occurs in the Iberian Peninsula, Italy and France. Genet fossils from the Late Miocene...
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  • Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (French: Saint Genet, comédien et martyr) is a book by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre about the writer Jean Genet, especially...
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  • Lyons. Composed of three intercut narratives inspired by the novels of Jean Genet, the gay themes in Poison marked an emerging "queer new wave" in cinema...
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  • Our Lady of the Flowers (category Novels by Jean Genet)
    the Flowers (Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs) is the debut novel of French writer Jean Genet, first published in 1943. The free-flowing, poetic novel is a largely...
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    Clèves directed by Jean Delannoy 1965: Thomas l'imposteur directed by Georges Franju 1950: Un chant d'amour réalisé par Jean Genet 1924: Dessins 1925:...
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    The Maids (category Plays by Jean Genet)
    The Maids (French: Les Bonnes) is a 1947 play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. It was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris in a production...
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  • The Thief's Journal (category Novels by Jean Genet)
    du voleur, published in 1949) is a novel by Jean Genet. Although autobiographical to some degree, Genet’s exploitation of poetic language results in an...
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  • The Balcony (category Plays by Jean Genet)
    The Balcony (French: Le Balcon) is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. It is set in an unnamed city that is experiencing a revolutionary uprising...
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  • Un chant d'amour (category Works by Jean Genet)
    pronunciation: [œ̃ ʃɑ̃ damuʁ]; English: A Song of Love) is French writer Jean Genet's only film, which he directed in 1950. Because of its explicit (though...
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    to alter the style for Playboy’s publishers. In 1968 Burroughs joined Jean Genet, John Sack, and Terry Southern in covering the 1968 Democratic National...
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  • Querelle of Brest (category Novels by Jean Genet)
    writer Jean Genet. It was written mostly in 1945 and first published anonymously in 1947, limited to 460 numbered copies, with illustrations by Jean Cocteau...
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  • needed] Artaud's works have been highly influential on artists including Jean Genet, Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook, and Romeo Castellucci.[citation needed]...
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    Edmond-Charles Genêt (January 8, 1763 – July 14, 1834), also known as Citizen Genêt, was the French envoy to the United States appointed by the Girondins...
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  • Blood and Guts in High School (category Jean Genet)
    lets her go and she illegally goes to Tangier, Morocco. There she meets Jean Genet, the iconic French writer, and they develop a relationship while Janey...
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    of the movement as Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet, and in subsequent editions he added a fifth playwright, Harold Pinter...
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  • ex-convict and author, whose works address prison life (among other topics) Jean Genet, ex-convict and novelist, whose works address prison life (among other...
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  • Querelle (category Jean Genet)
    Fassbinder. The film stars Brad Davis and was adapted from French author Jean Genet's 1947 novel Querelle of Brest. The plot centers on the Belgian sailor...
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  • the 1949 work The Thief's Journal (Journal du Voleur) by French author Jean Genet, a fictionalised account of his wanderings through Europe in the 1930s...
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  • Henry W. Genet (1828–1889), New York politician Jean Genet (1910–1986), French writer Jean-Philippe Genet (born 1944), French historian Joseph Genet (1914–1999)...
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    One Thousand and One Nights Tim Supple Shakespeare theater Splendid's Jean Genet Cristèle Alves Meira Théâtre de l'Athénée 2012 Le livre de Damas et des...
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  • féminine is not limited to "woman". She names Colette, Marguerite Duras, and Jean Genet as "the only inscriptions of femininity that [she has] ever seen". She...
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  • Funeral Rites (novel) (category Novels by Jean Genet)
    1948 novel by Jean Genet. It is a story of love and betrayal across political divides, written this time for the narrator's lover, Jean Decarnin, killed...
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  • Morrow. It is an adaptation of the 1949 French play Haute Surveillance by Jean Genet. Greeneyes and Snowball are both murderers in prison awaiting their death...
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  • 1939. It is considered a forerunner of the Nouveau Roman. Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras and Jean-Paul Sartre all described it as a masterpiece. The title...
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    first book: Jean Genet, la vie écrite (La Difference, 1988) opposed Genet's official image (as an uncultured outlaw) and showed Jean Genet to be a highly...
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    works by European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet. His middle period comprised plays that explored the psychology of maturing...
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