Saint Genet

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Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr is a 1952 book by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre about the writer Jean Genet, especially his work The Thief’s Journal. Sartre says the book shows how genius is not a natural gift but something people create in desperate times. He also based the character Goetz in his play The Devil and the Good Lord (1951) on Genet’s psychology and morality. Scholar David M. Halperin describes Sartre’s study as a brilliant, thorough look at Genet’s unique subjectivity and his ideas about gender and gay life.