讓·熱內(Jean Genet )1910年生於巴黎,7個月後即被家庭拋棄,上小學時因受同學歧視,開始自暴自棄。小學畢業后,熱內走向社會,與流浪漢為伍,后因盜竊被監禁。18歲時,熱內應徵入全,但不入當了逃兵,流浪歐洲,一路行竊,多次被捕坐牢。1942年,熱內在獄中開始寫作,處女作《鮮花聖母》及後來的《玫瑰的奇迹》和《盛大的葬禮》獲得好評。1944年,熱內被判終身流放,但他在獄中繼續寫作。1949年,熱內的文學成就得到重視和承認。在薩特等大作家的呼籲下,法國總統頒布特赦令,赦免了熱內。1983年,熱內獲得法國國家文學大獎。《小偷日記》為熱內的代表作。
Jean Genet. French writer
born Dec. 19, 1910, Paris, France
died April 15, 1986, Paris
French criminal and social outcast turned writer who, as a novelist, transformed erotic and often obscene subject matter into a poetic vision of the universe and, as a dramatist, became a leading figure in the avant-garde theatre, especially the Theatre of the Absurd.
Genet, an illegitimate child abandoned by his mother, Gabrielle Genet, …