>pick up pic related expecting a biography of Genet>it's actually Sartre’s enterprise to exhibit his own philosophical style while writing about a specific figureThe fuck?It’s literally the modern equivalent of a goodreads review.
>>25354851>OP discovers literary criticism
>>25354860Criticism by immersion breaks every rule of decorum established for a critic.
>>25354851>Sartre is my friend. He has about five ideas. They're very good ideas. He has five of them.-Jean Genet
>>25354894Says who? That has applied to a greater or lesser extent to every significant critic for centuries.
>>25354940>things that never happened
>>25354851Sartre's books on Genet, Baudelaire, Mallarmé are all shit. You're better off reading Bataille's Literature and Evil or Blanchot