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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
Grove Press
Language
English
Pages
268

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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

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The Thief's Journal
2019, Faber & Faber
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Cover of: The Thief's Journal (Genet, Jean)
The Thief's Journal (Genet, Jean)
February 2, 1994, Grove Press
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The thief's journal
1988, Grove Press
in English - 1st printing.
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The thief's journal
1987, Grove Press
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Journal Du Voleur
June 1966, Gallimard
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The thief's journal: Translated [from the French] by Bernard Frechtman
1965, A. Blond
in English
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Journal du voleur
1949, Gallimard
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Edition Notes

Translation of: Journal du voleur.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
843/.912
Library of Congress
PQ2613.E53 J613 1987, PQ2613.E53J613 1987

The Physical Object

Pagination
268 p. ;
Number of pages
268

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2383324M
ISBN 10
0802130143
LCCN
87012095
OCLC/WorldCat
15792686
Library Thing
113454
Goodreads
328208

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"Convicts' garb is striped pink and white."

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