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The Fugitive
Kaufman, David | January 3, 1994 issue

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This article presents information on the book "Genet: A Biography," by Edmund White. Edmund White is a criminal turned writer of the U.S. The book is a biography of French playwright and novelist, Jean Genet. Perhaps it's inevitably the result of the meeting between Edmund White, among the most respected of contemporary gay novelists, and Jean Genet, the "flagrant" homosexual and "bad boy" genius of twentieth-century literature. According to White, Genet would later associate his first homosexual tendencies with his first impulses to steal, and connection is also drawn between his effeminacy and his need to run away-indeed, since adolescence, eluding detection was one of Genet's chief motivations.

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GENET: A Biography (Book); WHITE, Edmund; BIOGRAPHY; GENET, Jean, 1910-1986; GAY novelists; GENEALOGY; BOOKS & reading
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