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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.

Publish Date
Publisher
The Olympia Press
Language
English
Pages
291

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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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The Thief's Journal (Genet, Jean)
February 2, 1994, Grove Press
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The thief's journal
1988, Grove Press
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Cover of: Journal Du Voleur
Journal Du Voleur
June 1966, Gallimard
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The thief's journal: Translated [from the French] by Bernard Frechtman
1965, A. Blond
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The thief's journal
1959, The Olympia Press
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Journal du voleur
1949, Gallimard
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Edition Notes

Translation of: Journal du voleur.

"Foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman"--Cover.

"Printed July 1959 by Imp. Moderne du Lion"--Colophon.

"Not to be sold in the U.S.A. or U.K."--Page 4 of cover.

Kearney, P.J. Paris Olympia Press (new ed.), 5.78.1

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Published in
Paris
Series
The traveller's companion series -- no 78, Traveller's companion series (Paris, France) -- no. 78.
Copyright Date
1954

Classifications

Library of Congress
PQ2613.E53 J613 1959

The Physical Object

Pagination
291 pages
Number of pages
291

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL44381685M
OCLC/WorldCat
5684998

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"Convicts' garb is striped pink and white."

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