The thief's journal
by Jean Genet
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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.
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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
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The Thief's Journal
December 30, 2004, Olympiapress.com
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in English
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The Thief's Journal (Genet, Jean)
February 2, 1994, Grove Press
Paperback
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0802130143 9780802130143
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The thief's journal.: [Foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman]
1959, Olympia Press
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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.
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