Genet à Tanger

At the beginning of the 70s Jean Genet is in Tangier he is in his sixties and he no longer writes He lives in the El Minza hotel a palace where he spends entire days reading smoking and sleeping he takes Nembutal a barbiturate used as a sleeping pill He only goes out at the beginning of the afternoon to have a coffee with milk in one of the bars of Petit Socco He sometimes meets the young Moroccan writer Mohamed Choukri there Their discussion is banal friendly Sometimes they talk about literature Genet no longer writes but is still inhabited by it