Jean-Paul Sartre: Genet is a man-failure: he wills the impossible in order to derive from the tragic grandeur of this defeat the assurance

Genet is a man-failure: he wills the impossible in order to derive from the trag — Jean-Paul Sartre

Genet is a man-failure: he wills the impossible in order to derive from the tragic grandeur of this defeat the assurance that there is something other than the possible.

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