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Jean Genet

Jean Genet

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Birth: 1910-12-19 , 6.º arrondissement de Paris
Death: 1986-04-14 , 13.º arrondissement de Paris
Jean Genet was a prominent French writer, playwright, and political activist. His work, often controversial, explores themes of crime, sexuality, marginality, and the search for transcendence through rebellion. Genet challenged the social and moral conventions of his time, using poetic and stylized language to portray the underworld and the human condition.
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

The Blacks (1959); epigraph

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Anger and Indignation

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