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The Thief's Journal: Jean Genet

The Thief's Journal: Jean Genet

by Bernard Frechtman (Translator), M. Jean Genet (Author)

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    Paperback 2019

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 Mar 2019
ISBN 10: 0571340830
ISBN 13: 9780571340835
Book Overview: A beautiful new edition of Jean Genet's classic work -- part of a revitalising repackage of all of Genet's novels for 2019. Featuring a new introduction by author Ahdaf Soueif.

Author Bio
Jean Genet, (born Dec. 19, 1910, Paris, France-died April 15, 1986, Paris), French criminal and social outcast turned writer who, as a novelist, transformed erotic and often obscene subject matter into a poetic vision of the universe and, as a dramatist, became a leading figure in the avant-garde theatre, especially the Theatre of the Absurd.