“...the impossible must be supposed in order to explain the superdetermination of the event”
Source: Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952), p. 301
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".
“...for one cannot enter an image unless one makes oneself imaginary”
Source: Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952), p. 297
Source: Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952), p. 384
Original: (fr) L’important n’est pas ce qu’on fait de nous mais ce que nous faisons nous-même de ce qu’on a fait de nous.
Source: Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952), p.55
Source: Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952), p. 238
