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Word: giacommetti (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dealt with subjects most French readers of his day found seedy at best: drag queens, hustlers, thieves, sailors having sex with each another. But he wrote these stories in a highly ornamental prose which dazzled readers and made him a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Cocteau and Alberto Giacommetti. As the usually modest Genet put it in a moment of pride, "There was the French language and then there...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Thief, Hustler, National Treasure | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

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