An edition of Journal du voleur (1949)

The thief's journal

by

  • ★★★ 3.4 (5 ratings) ·
  • 41 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read
Cover of: The thief's journal by Jean Genet, Jean Genet
Not in Library

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today
Notes
  • ★★★ 3.4 (5 ratings) ·
  • 41 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read
Notes

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Last edited by ImportBot
February 2, 2023 | History
Edit
An edition of Journal du voleur (1949)

The thief's journal

by

  • ★★★ 3.4 (5 ratings) ·
  • 41 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

The Thief's Journal (Journal du voleur, published in 1949) is a novel by Jean Genet. It is a part-fact, part-fiction autobiography that charts the author's progress through Europe in a depoliticized 1930s, wearing nothing but rags and enduring hunger, contempt, fatigue and vice. The main character encounters bars, dives, flophouses, robbery, prison and expulsion in Spain, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Nazi Germany and Belgium.

The novel is structured around a series of homosexual love affairs and male prostitution between the author/anti-hero and various criminals, con artists, pimps, and a detective.

Publish Date
Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
224

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Subjects

Fiction, French Authors, Gay authors, Gay men, Prisoners, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Genet, jean, 1910-1986, Romance literature, LGBTQ novels before Stonewall, Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author)

People

Jean Genet (1910-1986)

Places

France

Times

20th century

Showing 7 featured editions. View all 41 editions?

Edition Availability
Cover of: The Thief's Journal
The Thief's Journal
2019, Faber & Faber
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: The Thief's Journal (Genet, Jean)
The Thief's Journal (Genet, Jean)
February 2, 1994, Grove Press
Paperback in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: The thief's journal
The thief's journal
1990, Penguin Books
in English
  • Not in Library
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: The thief's journal
The thief's journal
1988, Grove Press
in English - 1st printing.
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Journal Du Voleur
Journal Du Voleur
June 1966, Gallimard
Mass Market Paperback in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: The thief's journal
The thief's journal: Translated [from the French] by Bernard Frechtman
1965, A. Blond
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Journal du voleur
Journal du voleur
1949, Gallimard
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details

Edition Notes

Originally published as Journal du voleur: 1949.

This translation first published in Great Britain: Anthony Blond, 1965.

First published in Penguin Books, 1967.

Published in
Harmondsworth
Series
Penguin twentieth-century classics

The Physical Object

Pagination
224p. ;
Number of pages
224

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18193824M
ISBN 10
0140180893
OCLC/WorldCat
41974418
Library Thing
113454
Goodreads
1409000

Source records

amazon.com record

First Sentence

"Convicts' garb is striped pink and white."

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

See All

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
February 2, 2023 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
October 25, 2021 Edited by Jenner Merge works
April 28, 2011 Edited by OCLC Bot Added OCLC numbers.
August 18, 2010 Edited by IdentifierBot added LibraryThing ID
October 11, 2008 Created by ImportBot Imported from Talis record