The Thief's Journal
$31.28
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2019
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571340835 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0571340830 |
| Author: | M. Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 130mm x 195mm |
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M. Jean Genet
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.
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