The Thief's Journal

Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre


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3.94 · 16 ratings · 272 pages · Published: 1949

The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre
The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil. Writing in the intensely lyrical prose style that is his trademark, the man, Jean Cocteau, dubbed France's "Black Prince of Letters" here reconstructs his early adult years - time he spent as a petty criminal and vagabond, traveling through Spain and Antwerp, occasionally border hopping across to the rest of Europe, always trying to stay one step ahead of the authorities.

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