Description
“The mist beautiful book that Genet has written.” -Jean-Paul SartreThe Thief’s Journal is perhaps Jean Genet’s most authentically biographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil. Writing in the intensely lyrical prose style that is his trademark, the man Jean Cocteau dubbed France’s “Black Prince of Letters” here reconstructs his early adult years-time he spent as a petty criminal and vagabond, traveling through Spain and Antwerp, occasionally border hopping across the rest of Europe, always one step ahead of the authorities
Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
242 pages
Language
English
Published
Feb 2, 1994
Publisher
Grove Press
Editions
55 editions
ISBN-10
0802194257
ISBN-13
9780802194251