Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)
Quotes from book
Saint Genet
Jean Paul Sartre
Original title
Saint Genet, comédien et martyr
(French, 1952)
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." Sartre also based his character Goetz in his play The Devil and the Good Lord on his analysis of Genet's psychology and morality. Sartre has been credited by David M. Halperin with providing, "a brilliant, subtle, and thoroughgoing study of the unique subjectivity and gender positioning of gay men".
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“…in order to change poverty into wealth, one must start by displaying it.”
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Source: Book 2, "The Melodious Child Dead in Me"
“…the reality of society involves the socialization of certain unrealities.”
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“The dreamer must contaminate the others by his dream, he must make them fall into it”
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“esse est percipi, and he recognizes himself as being only insofar as he is perceived.”
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