An edition of Journal du voleur (1949)

The thief's journal

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The thief's journal
Jean Genet, Jean Genet
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An edition of Journal du voleur (1949)

The thief's journal

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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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Publisher
Faber and Faber
Language
English
Pages
240

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Cover of: The Thief's Journal
The Thief's Journal
2019, Faber & Faber
in English
Cover of: The Thief's Journal (Genet, Jean)
The Thief's Journal (Genet, Jean)
February 2, 1994, Grove Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: The thief's journal
The thief's journal
1988, Grove Press
in English - 1st printing.
Cover of: The thief's journal
The thief's journal
1973, Faber and Faber
in English
Cover of: Journal Du Voleur
Journal Du Voleur
June 1966, Gallimard
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: The thief's journal
Cover of: Journal du voleur
Journal du voleur
1949, Gallimard
in English

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Edition Notes

Translation of: Journal du voleur.

Published in
London

Classifications

Library of Congress
PQ2613.E53 J613x 1974

The Physical Object

Pagination
240 p. ;
Number of pages
240

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2348546M
ISBN 10
0571103804
LCCN
86672170
OCLC/WorldCat
6667962
Library Thing
113454
Goodreads
1408999

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"Convicts' garb is striped pink and white."

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