Jean Genet et la Méditerranée
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Universitat de Lleida
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- Carlota Vicens-Pujol (coord.)
- Cristina Solé Castells (coord.)
- Lídia Anoll Vendrell (coord.)
- María Gracia Vila Mengual (coord.)
Éditorial: Universidad de las Islas Baleares = Universitat de les Illes Balears
ISBN: 9788483843857
Année de publication: 2019
Pages: 269-282
Congreso: Asociación de Francesistas de la Universidad Española. Coloquio (26. 2017. null)
Type: Communication dans un congrès
Résumé
The article aims to show how the Mediterranean Sea is a key element in the development of the personality and the writing of Jean Genet. The Mediterranean appears in his works as a youth as a flattering trip in space, a transgression, and at the same time, a protective environment. It focuses his rebellion against the bourgeois society of the ‘Advanced’ countries and his desire for freedom. However, from the mid-1950s, the Mediterranean becomes a space for meeting and social and cultural solidarity. It becomes the backbone of his fight for oppressed peoples. In the last years of his life it is also the Mediterranean that takes him to discover a spiritual dimension that is able to make sense of his life and thus the accept it and find inner peace.