“Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but profound solitude.”

About Jean Genet

Author • French

Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, and political activist. Initially a vagabond and petty criminal, he began writing in prison and his works often explored themes of...