Journal du voleur
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About This Book
The Thief's Journal (Journal du voleur, published in 1949) is a novel by Jean Genet. It is a part-fact, part-fiction autobiography that charts the author's progress through Europe in a depoliticized 1930s, wearing nothing but rags and enduring hunger, contempt, fatigue and vice. The main character encounters bars, dives, flophouses, robbery, prison and expulsion in Spain, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Nazi Germany and Belgium. The novel is structured around a series of homosexual love affairs and male prostitution between the author/anti-hero and various criminals, con artists, pimps, and a detective.
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Sign InFictionFrench AuthorsGay authorsGay menPrisonersContinental european fiction (fictional works by one author)Genet, jean, 1910-1986Romance literatureContinental european drama (dramatic works by one author)BiographyLGBTQ fiction before Stonewall
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Book Details
First Published
1949
Pages
272 pages
Rating
3.5 / 5
Ratings
6
Editions
49
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Language
JPN, SPA, UND
Status
Published
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