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Each of these texts, in its own way, promotes and celebrates absolute theatricalization as a prevention against communication, theater being the most spectacular, the most metaphysical evacuating device, the most spectacular way of exposing the glory of emptiness, or producing what Genet calls the ' vide solide, ' --Denis Hollier, New York University

"""Each of these texts, in its own way, promotes and celebrates absolute theatricalization as a prevention against communication, theater being the most spectacular, the most metaphysical evacuating device, the most spectacular way of exposing the glory of emptiness, or producing what Genet calls the 'vide solide.'"" - Denis Hollier,New York University"

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Jean Genet (1910-1986), poet, novelist, playwright, and political essayist, was one of the most significant French writers of the twentieth century. His work, much of it considered scandalous when it first appeared, is now placed among the classics of modern literature and has been translated and performed throughout the world.

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