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The Balcony ___MASK2___ a ___MASK38___ by the French dramatist Jean Genet . Set in an unnamed city that ___MASK2___ experiencing a revolutionary uprising in the streets , most of the action takes place in an upmarket brothel that functions as a microcosm of the regime of the establishment under threat outside . The ___MASK42___ is a ___MASK38___ by the French dramatist Jean Genet . Its first few productions all used abridged versions , beginning with its world premiere under Hans Lietzau ' s direction in Berlin in May 1961 . Its first complete performance was staged in Stockholm in 1964 , two years before Roger Blin directed its French premiere in Paris . ___MASK60___ is a novel by the French writer Jean Genet . It was first published anonymously in 1947 and limited to 460 numbered copies . It is set in the midst of the port town of Brest , where sailors and the sea are associated with murder . Its protagonist , Georges Querelle , is a bisexual thief , prostitute and serial killer who manipulates and kills his lovers for thrills and profit . The novel formed the basis for Rainer Werner Fassbinder ' s last film , " Querelle " ( 1982 ). Funeral Rites ( Pompes funèbres ) ___MASK2___ a 1948 novel by Jean Genet . It ___MASK2___ a story of love and betrayal across political divides , written this time for the narrator ' s lover , Jean Decarnin , killed by the Germans in WWII . The ___MASK35___ edition was limited to 1 , 500 copies ; in 1953 the text was revised by Gallimard , excising some possibly offensive passages , which became the basis for the 1953 English translation by Frechtman . The ___MASK13___ ' s Journal (" Journal du voleur ") ___MASK2___ perhaps Jean Genet ' s most ___MASK59___ work . It ___MASK2___ a part - fact , part - fiction autobiography that charts the author ' s progress through Europe in a curiously depoliticized 1930s , wearing nothing but rags and enduring hunger , contempt , fatigue and vice . Spain , Italy , Austria , Czechoslovakia , Poland , Nazi Germany , Belgium ... everywhere ___MASK2___ the same : bars , dives , flop - houses ; ___MASK85___ , prison and expulsion . Our ___MASK95___ of the ___MASK20___ (" Notre Dame des Fleurs ") ___MASK2___ the debut novel of French writer Jean Genet , ___MASK35___ published in 1943 . The free - flowing , poetic novel ___MASK2___ ___MASK66___ largely autobiographical account of ___MASK66___ man ' s journey through the Parisian underworld . The characters are drawn after their real - life counterparts , who are mostly homosexuals living on the fringes of society . ___MASK61___ Genet ( ) was ___MASK66___ French novelist , playwright , poet , essayist , and political activist . Early in his life he was ___MASK66___ ___MASK46___ and petty ___MASK49___ , but he later took to writing . His ___MASK89___ ___MASK4___ include the novels " ___MASK60___ ", " The Thief ' s Journal ", and " Our Lady of the Flowers ", and the plays " The Balcony ", " The Blacks ", " The Maids " and " The Screens ". The Maids ___MASK2___ a ___MASK38___ by the French dramatist Jean Genet . It was first performed at the Théâtre de l ' Athénée in Paris in a production that opened on 17 April 1947 , which Louis Jouvet directed . Querelle ___MASK2___ a ___MASK7___ West German - French English - language ___MASK19___ film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Brad Davis , adapted from French author Jean Genet ' s 1947 novel " Querelle de Brest ". It marked Fassbinder ' s final film as a writer / director ; it was posthumously released just months after the director died of a drug overdose in June ___MASK7___ .