Jean Genet (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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Abandoned by his mother, Genet was handed over to foster parents when he was only one year old. At fourteen he apprenticed himself to a typographer near Paris. He ran away first from the typographer and then from other homes and institutions in which he was placed, beginning a life of wandering and stealing. In order to get out of an agricultural penitentiary in 1929, he joined the French army. After serving one full tour of duty, he re-enlisted, only to desert in 1936. This was followed by years of stealing and being sentenced to prison terms.
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