The intertwined lives and deaths of Jean Genet and Simone de Beauvoir
A strange literary coincidence occurred in Paris exactly 40 years ago, on 14 April, 1986. In the small hours of the morning, Jean Genet, enfant terrible of French literature, tripped on a step leading to the toilet in his tiny Left Bank hotel room. He fell forward and fatally smashed his head on the tile floor. Several
