This Blogger considers Jean Genet one of the great dramatists of the 20 th  Century, on par with Pirandello, Pinter, and Brecht. This Blogger considers THE BALCONY and THE MAIDS flat out masterpieces, but masterpieces of the  Théâtre de la Cruauté( the Theater of Cruelty . He never won a Nobel Prize for Literature. Perhaps because of his checkered background; he was a thief, a criminal, a convict, a male prostitute and a pimp. To top it off, Genet had an ungodly obsession with the Roman Catholic Church; when Jean Paul Sartre wrote his famous essay on Genet, he called it SAINT GENET. VATICAN II, the great Catholic Council was televised in Europe; d uring VATICAN II, Genet set up  shop at a Parisian café, at an outdoor table. He placed a television on his table, and invited bystanders to watch the proceedings with him,as he offered commentary. The highlight of his day was pointing out which of the bishops on screen were gay. Genet was a master of the dynami...

An inquiry into pedophilia in the French Catholic Church since 1950, has revealed that perhaps over 330,000  French youngsters, mostly boys, have been sexually assaulted, sexually exploited and sexually abused by the clergy and  laymen of the French Catholic Church.      The inquiry found that the French Catholic Church employed perhaps as many as 3,200 sexual abusers; the abuse was systemic.     Perhaps it is time to pay attention to the ravings of Jean Genet. Genet was a French homosexual, male prostitute, pimp, criminal, convict,    and world class writer/playwright. He was  obsessed with the Roman Catholic Church.     He had a granular solution to pedophilia in the French Catholic Church; which this Blogger discussed in 2018, and has reprinted in this Blog.   The following is excerpted from an article about the inquiry.   ” Some 216,000 children - mostly boys - have been sexually abused by clergy in the French Cat...