The Thief's Journal

Author: Jean Genet; Jean-Paul Sartre (Foreword by); Patti Smith (Introduction by)

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Price : 35.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780802128270
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Imprint : 47838
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Publication date : 01 August 2018
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Author : Jean Genet; Jean-Paul Sartre (Foreword by); Patti Smith (Introduction by)
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Language : English
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Pages : 272
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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.

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