Jean Genet

Novelist, playwright, ex-criminal, ‘saint’ (according to Jean-Paul Sartre), and all-around provocateur, Jean GENET (1910-1986, Paris) wrote five shattering novels centered on his evolving central character named ‘Jean Genet’. He is arguably the greatest instance of a literary author (including even Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Yukio Mishima, and Alain Robbe-Grillet) transforming their fictional voice, with imagery intact, into purely cinematic terms.