“All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?”
King Aegistheus to Jupiter, Act 2
The Flies (1943)
“All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?”
King Aegistheus to Jupiter, Act 2
The Flies (1943)
Characterizations of Existentialism (1944)
“If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.”
Interview (1960), Quoted in Susan Sontag's introduction to Barthes: Selected Writings, “Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes,” (1982)
“…the prisoner’s dreams is the guard’s spirituality”
(400).
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)
Hugo to Jessica, on his plans to kill Hoederer, Act 5, sc. 2
Dirty Hands (1948)
Zdroj: Preface to The Wretched of the Earth (1961), p. xlvi