The crimes of Jean Genet.

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      Translated into English for the first time by New York Review Books, and published along with some of Genet's most interesting essays, this text t provides crucial insights into Genet's way of thinking. Commenting on Sartre's "preface" to Genet's work - in fact a prolix, 600-page study published in 1952 - the cultural theorist Georges Bataille noted Sartre's view that Genet's idea of evil was theological in origin. If de Sade and Nietzsche countered these values with a pose of aristocratic individualism, Genet opposed them with values he attributed to the lumpen criminal classes. PHOTO (COLOR): Rebel, rebel: Jean Genet, photographed by Brassaï in Paris, 1948, was confined in the Mettray penal colony for juveniles at the age of 15. [Extracted from the article]
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