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Jean Genet

Jean Genet

French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986)

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Some Poems

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent -- or they themselves -- was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.
Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
Jean Genet - BBC Arena
Jean Genet_BBC | La dernière interview
Jean Genet, une vie de transgression - #CulturePrime
Patti Smith - Three Stones for Jean Genet
Bobby Gillespie on his Creative Hero: Jean Genet | The Performers (Ep. 1) | GQ & Gucci
En 1970, l'écrivain Jean Genet à propos du combat des Noirs américains
Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd: Crash Course Theater #45
Jean Genet Un Chant d'Amour / The Smiths Handsome Devil
1963 - The Balcony
Rear Window - THE PORTRAIT OF JEAN GENET
Jean GENET – Une Vie, une Œuvre : 1910-1986 (France Culture, 2010)
Une vie, une œuvre : Jean Genet (1910-1986), un monstre d'innocence [1992]
Jean Genet - "EDEBİYAT, DEĞİŞİM, HAPİSHANE, POLİTİKA" 1982 (Türkçe Altyazılı)
Jean Genet sur le fil
Querelle of Brest by Jean Genet - Book Chat
Jean Genet in Tangier
Jean Genet - Interview
Jean GENET – Un siècle d'écrivains : la Passion selon Saint-Genet (DOCUMENTAIRE, 1995)
scene from DEATHWATCH
JEAN GENET DOCUMENTAL EN ESPAÑOL COMPLETO
Jean Genet Mort de Jean GENET
Trailer | Jean Genet, Notre-Père des Fleurs | Dalila Ennadre
MORT BOIS A YOUNG JEAN GENET TRAILER
Genet à Chatila VF
Jean Genet, le contre exemplaire Documentaire Arte 2010
Sonia Devillers fait l’apologie de l’antisémite Jean Genet: le privilège rouge a encore frappé
Jean Genet : The Balcony - 1
French music - Yseult - BAD BOY - Jean Genet - Un chant d’Amour - accordion music cover - accordeon
Jean GENET, CÉLINE et l'argot (1982) [Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE]
Alberto Giacometti und Jean Genet - Der Schriftsteller, der Maler und der Seiltänzer
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet - Book Chat
Babx - Jean Genet, Le Condamné à mort - Nova
Jean Genet : Life, works &NTA NET PYQ @LiteratureLovers
Patti Smith WING live in Tangier - In memory of Jean Genet
The Maids trailer
Four hours in Shatila [Jean Genet]
Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal (1949) – Audiobook – Foreword + Part 1
Jean Genet
"Jean Genet, le condamné amour", Aurélien Barrau invité de Jérôme Lèbre.
Explaining Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
Bobby Gillespie on His Creative Hero: Jean Genet (Ep 1) | The Performers | British GQ & Gucci
Purchase Repertory Theater presents Jean Genet's "The Maids"
Jean Genet, un portrait amoureux de Lydie Dattas (2014 - Ça peut pas faire de mal / France Inter)
Hotel Jean Genet - Capital Inicial
L'Atelier D'Alberto Giacometti - Jean Genet
Rachid Taha "Jean Genet est un épicier arabe ouvert toute la nuit" | Café Picouly | Archive INA
20h Antenne 2 du 15 avril 1986 - Mort de Jean Genet | Archive INA
les bonnes - Jean Genet
Bobby Gillespie on his Creative Hero: Jean Genet (Ep. 1) | The Performers | GQ Australia & Gucci
"Flowers" A pantomime for Jean Genet by Lindsay Kemp... The DVD!

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