Description
The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel; an account of his impoverished travels across 1930s Europe. The narrator is guilty of vagrancy, petty theft and prostitution, but his writing transforms such degradations into an inverted moral code, where criminality and delinquency become heroic. With a holy trinity of his own making - homosexuality, theft and betrayal - in The Thief's Journal Genet produced a startlingly powerful novel without precedent.
Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
240 pages
Language
English
Published
Jan 1, 2019
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Editions
69 editions
ISBN-10
0571340830
ISBN-13
9780571340835