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Title: Genet : A Biography by Edmund White ISBN: 0-679-75479-2 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 October, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Gay rollercoster ride
Comment: Following the rags to riches life of Jean Genet is an interesting reliving of French literature and history. Edmund White is certainly capable of empathy and psychological understanding for Genet, unlike in his biographies if William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Though White makes the mistake of trying to incorporate some Michel Foucault, the homoseuxal philosopher, into his own penal insights into Jean Genet, the works and the man. Other than that fact, this handsome book is one long guitar solo at the altar of Genet.
Most of Genet's life is well-known, and partly used as the subjects for his novels. Genet was an orphan, had foster parents, and went to reform school. He had a bunch of early gay relationships, and he stole a lot of books. In prison Genet wrote Our Lady of The Flowers, and later shows it to Jean Cocteau, who is pissed off because he didn't write a similiar work first.
Genet wrote five novels and a few plays around and during World War II. They books are originally published anonymously. The books become an overnight sensation. As Genet becomes old and bald, and when the flamboyant Cocteau becomes bored with him, heterosexual Sartre and multisexual Simone de Beauvoir, both sort of yuppies of their time, become enamoured with the idea of hanging out and slumming it with Genet, a real thief.
Sartre saw him as a good example of his existential philosophy, and wrote Saint Genet. This book of his life came out when Genet was in his mid-forties. Genet doesn't write very much during the last years of his life. He does become involved with the Black Panthers and Palestinians.
Genet lived in Tangiers with his young Kiki. He wrote a final book that was banned before his death in 1986.
Genet's life was one long homosexual rollercoster ride. Genet's long life is an achievement which White gives a literary form in this tribute and gentle biography. As far as literary biographies go, this one is up there with the biographies of Oscar Wilde, Sade, and Frank O'Hara.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Masterpiece
Comment: Jean Genet wrote masterpieces,this autobiography is a masterpiece in itself !
Rating: 5
Summary: A Masterpece
Comment: Jean Genet wrote masterpieces...this autobiography is a masterpiece too !!!
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Title: The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman, Jean-Paul Sartre ISBN: 0802130143 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: October, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre, Bernard Frechtman ISBN: 0802130135 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: August, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman ISBN: 0802130887 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: April, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Selected Writings Of Jean Genet by Jean Genet ISBN: 0880014202 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Querelle by Jean Genet, Anselm Hollo ISBN: 0802151574 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: July, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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