i12bent: Jean Genet (Dec. 19, 1910 - 1986) was the perennial bad-boy outsider author of the late Modernist period in Europe. By 1949 he had already completed five novels, three plays and numerous poems - and been sent to jail nine times for theft, prostitution, ‘lewd’ - i.e. homosexual - behaviour, and a multitude of other transgressions… Genet was extremely influential on figures as diverse as William Burroughs and Jacques Derrida, who devoted half of his ground-breaking memoir/philosophical tract/art work Glas to Genet. Photo: Louis Monet, 1970

i12bent:

Jean Genet (Dec. 19, 1910 - 1986) was the perennial bad-boy outsider author of the late Modernist period in Europe. By 1949 he had already completed five novels, three plays and numerous poems - and been sent to jail nine times for theft, prostitution, ‘lewd’ - i.e. homosexual - behaviour, and a multitude of other transgressions…

Genet was extremely influential on figures as diverse as William Burroughs and Jacques Derrida, who devoted half of his ground-breaking memoir/philosophical tract/art work Glas to Genet.

Photo: Louis Monet, 1970