Mogutinowski portret Jeana Geneta: ingres kontrolowany
Mogutin's Portrait of Jean Genet: Controlled Ingress

Summary/Abstract: In the present article I concentrate on reception of Jean Genet’s literary output in Russia and in the West from the viewpoint of the Russian emigrant writer Jaroslav Mogutin (1974). The essayist quotes scandalizing facts from Genet’s biography in an effort to illustrate the impact of culture on formation of new reader’s sensitivity, writes about Genet’s plays directed by Roman Viktiuk and about the theatre of paradox, raises a point of sexual attractiveness of fascism, and explores reasons for unfading popularity of the French writer. Readers are introduced to critics’ opinions of Genet and the role performed by Genet’s monograph by Edmund White. Mogutin’s conception is sharpened by references to the biographies of world-famous writers, such as Franz Kafka or Thomas Mann.

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