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The Row Boat"Had we but world enough, and time..." * Hagiography3/09/2005 15:08:24An interesting book to look at is Sartre's Saint Genet. It can be a little hard to come by, but several times I've seen it in used book stores (though always come just short of buying it). In a self-conscious modern hagiography, Sartre describes and immortalizes the writer, criminal, and sensualist Jean Genet as the ideal of his philosophy. The triumph of one who has died and risen again in writing. Perhaps this is an excellent example of the aesthetic theology I sometimes call for. More viscerally, though, it is a grand sensation of a dependent relationship and the complication of present day patronage, probably as well known to Peace Core volunteers as to ethnomusicologists. Satre discovered Genet and popularized him. In this book, he completes this process, taking Genet's whole life itself for his own, fitting it into his philosophies, and devastating his subject's autonomy and essential difference; that which makes him such a great show in the first place. This is a perennial lesson and will be as long as people take inequalities to heart. Sartre was a man of Position, Genet was not. Genet proclaimed himself a man of life and Sartre agreed! Then Sartre took the Saint's life in an attempt to complete his own. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
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