Saint Genet decanonized: The Ludic body in Querelle

2002 will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Saint Genet. Ever since that date, Jean Genet’s work has largely been read and interpreted through Sartre’s analysis of the author. In this study, the author seeks to liberate Genet’s fiction from the philosopher’s stranglehold and reopen the work to new venues of interpretation.
After challenging the accuracy and pertinence of Sartre’s project and describing the problematic influence it has had, the author begins his own investigatio...