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, …
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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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Journal d'un Voleur
Paperback, 272 pages
English language
Published March 3, 1987 by Grove Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8021-3014-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 15792686
The Thief's Journal
Paperback, 216 pages
English language
Published by Olympiapress.com.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59654-137-5Copied ISBN!
Journal Du Voleur
mass market paperback, 305 pages
English language
Published by Gallimard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-036493-0Copied ISBN!
The thief's journal
268 pages
English language
Published 1988 by Grove Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-394-17811-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 439294345
Journal du Voleur
Paperback
Published by French & European Pubns.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8288-3647-0Copied ISBN!
The thief's journal
224 pages
English language
Published 1990 by Penguin Books.
- OCLC Number:
- 41974418
The Thief's Journal
Paperback, 268 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1964 by Grove/Atlantic.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-394-62437-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 342138
The Thief's Journal
256 pages
English language
Published 2019 by Faber & Faber.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-571-34083-5Copied ISBN!
Journal de Voleur
Paperback
Published by French & European Pubns.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7859-2325-1Copied ISBN!
The thief's journal
240 pages
English, French language
Published 1973 by Faber and Faber.
- OCLC Number:
- 6667962
The thief's journal
291 pages
English language
Published 1954 by Olympia Press.
- OCLC Number:
- 16418160
Thief's Journal
272 pages
English language
Published 2018 by Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8021-2827-0Copied ISBN!
Diario del ladrón
229 pages
Spanish language
Published 1983 by Seix Barral.
- OCLC Number:
- 16005338
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