Jean Genet

Jean Genet

Jean Genet (1910-1986) was a novelist, playwright and poet. Unknown and abandoned by his mother a few months after birth father, was soon handed over to a foster family. Since childhood I was aware of not belonging to the world that was offered and started very soon to face him: he committed his first robbery with ten years and, after several thefts and leaks, he was locked in the prison colony of Mettray, where crystallized trends homosexual. It was a deserter from the army and worked as a prostitute bum. He began writing in prison and in his works develops a hagiography of his own life and that of his fellow adventurers. He was admired by Sartre, who dedicated a voluminous study, and frequented by Giacometti, Foucault, Derrida and Brassaï. Among his major works are published in Castilian: Santa Maria de las Flores, Funeral, Brest Complaint and The Maids. Errata Naturae has published three of his works: Miracle of the Rose, The avowed enemy and criminal child.