His first novel, The Mother of Flowers, was written by Jean Genet in prison. The book was noticed and highly appreciated by such literary masters as Sartre, Celine, Nabokov, Burroughs, Moriak .. Like subsequent generations of readers, they saw in the work of Zhenya not shocking, but ultimate honesty, they heard the pure and sincere intonation from the heart and the cry of a tormented soul. The best features of his work were reflected in works written for the theater. Here, tragedy is closely intertwined with everyday life, romanticism - with area rudeness, the flight of fantasy - with certainty. The plays of Jean Genet for many decades do not come off the best scenes in the world