Saint Genet
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| Originally published | 1952 |
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| Authors | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Genres | Biography |
| Page count | 625 (English edition) |
| Translator | Bernard Frechtman |
| Country | France |
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| ID | 2608616 |
About Saint Genet
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr is a book by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre about the writer Jean Genet, especially on his The Thief's Journal. It was first published in 1952. Sartre described it as an attempt "to prove that genius is not a gift but the way out that one invents in desperate cases. "