《Le condamné à mort》 (English notation) Lecondamneamort

…Born in Paris as the illegitimate son of a prostitute, he was sent to a reformatory for theft as a boy in the Morvan region of the Massif Central. He then lived a life of wandering and imprisonment while continuing to steal and engage in prostitution with homosexuals. In 1942, he published a poem, Le condamné à mort, written while serving time in Flaine prison, in Paris after his release, and was recognized by J. Cocteau. His first novel, Les Fleurs-de-lis (1944), and his second, Les Miracles des Roses (1946), both depict the world of criminals and homosexuals, but the raw and extravagant prose, which transforms the grotesqueness, 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 published secretly. …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…娼婦の私生児としてパリに生まれ，中央山塊モルバン地方に里子に出されていた少年期に，窃盗の罪で感化院送りとなり，以後，窃盗や男色家相手の売春を続けながら，放浪と投獄の生活を送る。1942年，フレーヌ刑務所に服役中に書いた詩編《死刑囚Le condamné à mort》を出獄後パリで発表，J.コクトーの認めるところとなる。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。…

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