Saint Genet

by Sartre, Jean-paul; Frechtman, Bernard

• ISBN13: 9780816677603
• ISBN10: 0816677603
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-10
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

Saint Genetis Jean-Paul Sartre's classic biography of Jean Genet-thief, convict, and great artist-a character of almost legendary proportions whose influence grows stronger with time. Bringing together two of the century's greatest minds and artists, Saint Genetis at once a compelling psychological portrait, masterpiece of literary criticism, and one of Sartre's most personal and inspired philosophical creations.

Author Biography

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a renowned philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, and literary critic. Ho was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, an honor he declined. Bernard Frechtman was Jean Genet's first American translator and literary agent.

Table of Contents

Translator's Note	p. vii
The Metamorphosis
The Melodious Child Dead in Me Long Before the Ax Chops Off My Head	p. 1
A Dizzying Word	p. 17
First Conversion: Evil
I Will Be the Thief	p. 49
I Decided to Be What Crime Made of Me	p. 59
The Eternal Couple of the Criminal and the Saint	p. 73
I is Another	p. 138
A Daily Labor, Long and Disappointing	p. 150
"To Succeed in Being All, Strive to Be Nothing in Anything"	p. 194
Cain	p. 250
Second Metamorphosis: The Aesthete
Strange Hell of Beauty	p. 355
I Went to Theft as to a Liberation, as to the Light	p. 402
Third Metamorphosis: The Writer
A Mechanism Having the Exact Rigor of Verse	p. 425
And I, Gentler than a Wicked Angel, Lead Her by the Hand	p. 447
On the Fine Arts Considered as Murder	p. 483
My Victory Is Verbal and I Owe It to the Sumptuousness of the Terms	p. 544
Please Use Genet Properly	p. 584
Appendices
Self-Portrait of the Good Citizen	p. 601
The Tzedek Test	p. 607
The Maids	p. 611
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