Word: genetic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Genet Our Lady of the Flowers...
...Genet Our Lady of the Flowers...
...perhaps at his most turgid and absurd in the long, confused eulogy of Jean Genet's scabrous Our Lady of the Flowers; Sartre described the book as an epic of masturbation, and Genet described Sartre in some of his favorite four-letter words. But Sartre has lately found a fresher vein; in his autobiographical The Words (TIME, Oct. 9) he reminisces simply and compellingly about his unhappy childhood, from which he eventually escaped into literature as others escape into religion, business, or the Foreign Legion...
...years since Sartre wrote his taut and masterful early dramas, his works have become increasingly lengthy, turgid, posturing and difficult. The climax was perhaps Saint Genet, where he tortured a simple preface to another man's work into a labored and debatable treatise of 578 pages-three-quarters the length of the volumes he was introducing. But in his autobiography, Sartre simplifies and shortens. The writing is austere, crisp, even epigrammatic. The result is a warm, albeit desperately sad, account of his childhood and early teens. And far more than most autobiographies, this is an inward-turning book, cutting...
...just been offered a job as a teaching fellow. In New York, sisters attending Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart avidly study the sometimes shocking works of Samuel Beckett, and other nuns press curiously into a Second Avenue loft to take in the blasphemous black mass of Jean Genet's The Blacks...