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Jean Genet
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OverviewAI-generated
Jean Genet was a French writer whose professional career spanned from 1942 until his death. Born on 19 December 1910, he passed away on 15 April 1986. His literary output includes works such as *Here and now for Bobby Seale*, *L'atelier d'Alberto Giacometti*, *Nuestra Señora de las Flores*, *Maids*, and *La galère*.
Genet’s writings have been cataloged across various platforms, with Open Library listing 259 works associated with his name. He is also recognized in music databases, where his name appears with tags including poetry, chanson, and kaffequeeria. Additionally, his words are preserved in quote collections, featuring statements on themes of violence, identity, and personal experience.
Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Europeana Sparql, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 19 December 1910
- Died
- 15 April 1986
- Works
- 259
Top works
- Here and now for Bobby Seale
- L'atelier d'Alberto Giacometti
- Nuestra Señora de las Flores
- Maids (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
- La galère
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 193
- Total plays
- 1,631
Tags
Jean Genet (December 19, 1910 – April 15, 1986) was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing. His major works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers, the plays The Balcony, The Blacks, The Maids and The Screens, and the short film Un Chant d'Amour. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jean+Genet">Read more on Las
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,769x
- Situated Learning
· 1991 · cited 30,513x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,136x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,614x
- Numerical integration of the cartesian equations of motion of a system with constraints: molecular dynamics of n-alkanes
· 1977 · cited 19,832x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “This violence is a calm that disturbs you.”
- “But I would adore that thief who is my mother.”
- “If the hero join combat with night and conquer it, may shreds of it remain upon him!”
- “I suffered at the time from an ugliness I no longer find on my childhood face.”
- “By remaining inaccessible, he became the epitome of those whom I have named and who stagger me. I was therefore chaste.”
- “Fierce and pure, I was the theater of a fairyland restored to life.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jean
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- public figure
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Notable work
- The Maids
- Field of work
- activism
- Image
- JeanGenet-HansKoechler1983-cropped.jpg
Show 19 more facts
- P8168
- Battle of Pliska
- Commons category
- Jean Genet
- date of birth
- 1910-12-19
- date of death
- 1986-04-14
- topic's main category
- Category:Jean Genet
- cause of death
- esophageal cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Jean Genet
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- place of detention
- Mettray Penal Colony
- writing language
- French
- place of burial
- Larache
- birth name
- Jean Genet
- start of work period
- 1942-00-00
- end of work period
- 1986-00-00
- P12749
- Cricosaurus
- P12674
- Willi Bloedorn
- sexual orientation
- homosexuality
Sources (11)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Jean Genet, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~31 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Jean Genet (/ʒəˈneɪ/; French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒənɛ]; (1910-12-19)19 December 1910 – (1986-04-15)15 April 1986) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. His major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jean Genet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.