"Journey into a Secret Life" is an imaginary biography of Jean Genet, poet and high priest of evil - born in Paris in 1910, raised and humilated in a children's home, a pederast and thief who has been to prison 14 times and deproted from 5 European countries. His novels are ballades of poisonous beauty, his play are murky rituals of oppression where each person acts out the role imposed upon him by the others. "Revolt is something I allow myself", said Jean Genet in 1975 in conversation with Hubert Fichte. (Stern)