French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. His major works include the novels

The Thief's Journal, and
Our Lady of the Flowers, and

Plays:
The Balcony,
The Maids and
The Screens.


• Theatre of the Absurd
• Roman à clef, erotic, theatre

Works:
Novels -
Our Lady of the Flowers ( 1943)

The two auto-fictional novels, The Miracle of the Rose (Miracle de la rose 1946) and The Thief's Journal (Journal du voleur 1949), describe Genet's time in Mettray Penal Colony and his experiences as a vagabond and prostitute across Europe

• maids imitate one another and their mistress in The Maids (1947)
• clients of a brothel simulate roles of political power before, in a dramatic reversal, actually becoming those figures, all surrounded by mirrors that both reflect and conceal, in The Balcony (1957).
• The Blacks (1959), presenting a violent assertion of Black identity and anti-white virulence

Novels
• Our Lady of the Flowers (Notre Dame des Fleurs) 1942/1943
• The Miracle of the Rose (Miracle de la Rose) 1946/1951
• Funeral Rites (Pompes Funèbres) 1947/1953
• Querelle of Brest (Querelle de Brest) 1947/1953
• The Thief's Journal (Journal du voleur) 1949/1949
• Prisoner of Love (Un Captif Amoureux) 1986/1986

Plays
• Deathwatch (Haute surveillance) 1944
• The Maids (Les Bonnes) 1946
• Splendid's 1948/1993/
• The Balcony (Le Balcon) 1955.
• The Blacks (Les Nègres) 1955
• Her (Elle) 1955/1989
The Screens (Les Paravents) 1956-61/1961/1964
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Jean Paul Sartre ( 1905 - 1980)

—-Continental philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, existential phenomenology,[3] hermeneutics,[3] Western Marxism, anarchism (late)

Plays and Screenplays
• Bariona (1940)
• The Flies (1943) - It is an adaptation of the Electra myth
story of Orestes and his sister Electra in their quest to avenge the death of their father Agamemnon, king of Argos, by killing their mother Clytemnestra and her husband Aegisthus, who had deposed and killed him.

• No Exit (1944) - begins with three characters who find themselves waiting in a mysterious room. depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for eternity. It is the source of Sartre's especially famous and often misinterpreted quotation "Hell is other people",

• The Respectful Prostitute (1946)
• The Chips Are Down (1947)
• Dirty Hands (1948)
• The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
• Kean (1953)
• Nekrassov (1955)
• The Condemned of Altona (1959)
• The Trojan Woman (1965)
• The Freud Scenario (1984)

Philosophical Essays

• (Important )"Imagination: A Psychological Critique" (1936)
• (Imp )"The Transcendence of the Ego" (1936)
• "Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions" (1939)
• "The Imaginary" (1940)
• (Imp )Being and Nothingness (1943)
• (Imp )Existentialism and Humanism (1946)
• (Imp )What Is Literature? (1947) -influenced Barthes
• "Search for a Method" (1957)
• (Imp )"Critique of Dialectical Reason" (1960, 1985)
• "Notebooks for an Ethics" (1983)
• "Truth and Existence" (1989)


Novels and Short Stories

• Nausea (1938)
• The Wall (1939)
• The Roads to Freedom
• (Imp )The Age of Reason (1945)
• The Reprieve (1945)
• Troubled Sleep (1949)
• In the Mesh (1948)
• Intimacy (1949)
Hurricane over Cuba (1961)

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Formalism

Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 86)

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908 - 2009)

Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984)

• French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, and literary critic

Important Works:
• The History of Madness (1961)
• The Birth of the Clinic (1963)
• Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (1964)
abridged edition of a 1961, The History or Madness
• The Order of Things (1966)
• The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969)
• Discipline and Punish (1975)
The History of Sexuality (1976)

Jacques Lacan ( 1901 - 1981)

There was a mix-up in the previous picture. The works listed were of Freud. Before you think I am an irresponsible twat who goofed up let me tell you that it was intentional. Totally not making it up right now. It was just an exercise to see if you guys were paying attention. Believe me. 💩

Roland Barthes (1915 - 1980)