The Thief s Journal

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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 and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780571340835
Published: March 2019

Number of pages: 256
Width: 130 mm
Height: 195 mm
Depth: 12 mm

Publisher: Faber & Faber