“What is still called American dynamism is an endless trembling.” That is Jean Genet’s prophetic declaration, written for a speech he delivered on May 1, 1970 at Yale University, before an audience of ...

Kip Williams reimagines the playwright’s macabre classic in a grimly funny, contemporary production at St. Ann’s Warehouse.

SAINT GENET by Jean-Paul Sartre 625 pages. Braziller. $8.50. OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS by Jean Genet. 318 pages. Grove. $6.50. “Jean Genet is an artist,” proclaimed the President of the French Republic ...

In the hands of Kip Williams, Genet’s dark drama somehow becomes a play about how you look at your phone too much.

Jean Genet (1910-86) wrote in fragments, beatific subsets of his imagination where crime and beauty blur in a single artistic tableau. "Be a Sublime whore," he commands his muse, an imagined entity ...

Stendhal on Correggio, Baudelaire on Guys, Zola on Manet, Proust on Moreau. It’s a long-standing practice, French poets and novelists taking up art criticism. In the 20th century, the roster continues ...

Something of Jean Genet’s original, subversive spirit has been resurrected in this highly charged revival of his 1947 classic The Maids, a co-production between Jermyn Street Theatre and Reading Rep.

MIRACLE OF THE ROSE by Jean Genet. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. 344 pages. Grove Press. $7.50. The literature that emerges from prison is as various as Mein Kampf and Pilgrim’s Progress. But the ...

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Jean Genet was born the illegitimate child of a prostitute who spent a majority of his youth wandering between the prison systems of Europe for theft, smuggling and male prostitution. As a writer, he ...

In his 1961 essay “How to Play ‘The Maids,’” Genet insisted that the flowers in Madame’s boudoir be real. A cut blossom is ...