RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, sa.39, ss.1146-1154, 2024 (Hakemli Dergi)
Jean Genet and his work have long been a source of controversy. His dramatic work, which critics have likened to the ideas of Antonin Artaud and especially his plays like The Maids (1947), The Balcony (1956), The Blacks (1958) and The Screens (1961) are essentially built around ritual, offering an authentic form of social criticism. By destroying the illusion of the stage, he made it impossible to distinguish between truth and false in worlds where criminals, prostitutes, thieves and traitors were put on stage. He creates an inverted world of values on the stage, where evil is exalted. This evil, which is essentially concentrated in the actions and above all the words of the character, is represented, most of the time through the figure of the Other, in an excess of hatred and gratuitous violence, all fuelled by betrayal. Using the constituent factors of Genet’s dramaturgy, this study will examine the staging of evil and its various facets, namely the perpetual hatred on which the plot is built. To carry out this study, we will draw on Raymond Federman's conceptualisation of Genet's “theatre of hatred”, as well as on Ivan Jablonka's “taste for betrayal” which is analysed in in his study Les vérités inavouables de Jean Genet.