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Jean-Paul Sartre Saint Genet
The New American Library Paperback
Jean Genet is known in this country chiefly for his disturbing off-Broadway hits, THE BLACKS, and THE BALCONY. Born a foundling, raised in reformatories and prisons, Genet spent his first thirty years prowling the European underworld. It is this world of brutality and betrayal that he re-creates in his shocking works. His first novel was written in prison in 1940-42. Seven years later, a petition signed by Cocteau, Sartre, Picasso, and others was presented to President Auriol, who granted Genet a pardon. Writing of the perverse, the secret, and the evil, Genet has been compared to his famous countrymen, Baudelaire and the Marquis de Sade.
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