"Les bonnes" (English spelling)

Japanese: 《Les bonnes》(英語表記)Lesbonnes
"Les bonnes" (English spelling)

...His first novel, Notre-Dame des Fleurs (1944), and his second, The Miracle of the Rose (1946), both depict the world of criminals and homosexuals, but the raw and extravagant prose, which transforms the strangeness, filth, and evil of the author's imagination into beauty and holiness, made Genet, the "thief writer," known in the avant-garde literary world of Paris, even though they were secretly published. The year 1947, when Jouvet's play Les bonnes premiered, was also the year when his novels The Funeral and The Thugs of Brest were published, but at the same time Genet was sentenced to life imprisonment as a habitual thief. Cocteau, JP Sartre, F. Mauriac, P. Claudel and others petitioned the president for a pardon, and Genet was able to make a living as a writer.

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Japanese:

…処女小説《花のノートル・ダム》(1944),第2作《薔薇の奇跡》(1946)は,共に犯罪者と男色家の世界を描くが,作者の想像力の異形性と汚辱と悪を美と聖性へと変容させるそのなまなましくも豪奢な散文によって,秘密出版とはいえ,一躍〈泥棒作家〉ジュネの名をパリの前衛文壇に知らしめた。ジューベにより劇作《女中たちLes bonnes》が初演された1947年は,また小説《葬儀》と《ブレストの乱暴者》が刊行された年だが,同時にジュネは窃盗常習犯として終身刑に処せられる。コクトー,J.P.サルトル,F.モーリヤック,P.クローデルらによる大統領への特赦請願が功を奏して,以後,ジュネは作家として生活するようになる。…

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