Sartre, Jean-Paul, translated from French by Bernard Frechtman, — Saint Genet: actor and martyr.

NY, Braziller, 1963. 2nd ptg. VG in G DJ. DJ browned on edges, edge wear. Born in a foundling home & raised in & out of reformatories, Genet spent the first 30 years. of his life as a vagrant, thief & jailbird. In jail he wrote his first book, Our Lady of the Flowers, "a flagrantly erotic glorification of homosexuality, murder, & criminality, is one of the most graphic & uncompromising texts in world literature. At the same time it is a lyric prose poem of harrowing moral insight & dazzling verbal splendor.a commentary.on the whole place & meaning of the 'misfit' in the human community.Sartre finds in Genet's life & conduct the perfect instance of the Existential Man-the human creature who consciously chooses his own selfhood & then enacts the consequences of his choice." DJ browned on edges & spine, sl edge wear.