In Miracle of the Rose he described the time he spent as a child at the notorious Mettray reform school.
He wrote the novels Funeral Rites and Querelle of Brest shortly after his first effort, a depiction of the Montmartre underworld entitled Notre-Dame des fleurs, or Our Lady of the Flowers. In Miracle of the Rose he described the time he spent as a child at the notorious Mettray reform school. Experimental plays like Deathwatch, The Blacks, and The Screens made him a leading Absurdist playwright, while the autobiographical The Thief's Journal famously described his life as a pickpocket and prostitute. FTP, who was this Frenchman, author of The Maids and The Balcony?
He wrote the novels Funeral Rites and Querelle of Brest shortly after his first effort, a depiction of the Montmartre underworld entitled Notre-Dame des fleurs, or Our Lady of the Flowers.
Jean Genet