The Thief's Journal

The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel; an account of his impoverished travels across 1930s Europe. The narrator is guilty of vagrancy, petty theft and prostitution, but his writing transforms such degradations into an inverted moral code, where criminality and delinquency become heroic. With a holy trinity of his own making - homosexuality, theft and betrayal - in The Thief's Journal Genet produced a startlingly powerful novel without precedent.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Genet, M. Jean Genet
• Assisted by: Bernard Frechtman (Translation)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9780571340835
• ISBN: 978-0-571-34083-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction