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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The thief's journal
240 pages
English language
Published 1965 by A. Blond.
- OCLC Number:
- 2302118
Journal du voleur.
318 pages
Chinese language
Published 1994 by Shi Bao.
- OCLC Number:
- 41965470
Journal du voleur
305 pages
French language
Published 1987 by Gallimard.
- OCLC Number:
- 11447040
The thief's journal
291 pages
English language
Published 1959 by The Olympia Press.
- OCLC Number:
- 5684998
Thief's Journal
English language
Published 1971 by Penguin Books, Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-002582-8Copied ISBN!
Thief's Journal
English language
Published 1994 by Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8021-9425-1Copied ISBN!
Journal du voleur.
286 pages
French language
Published 1949 by Gallimard.
- OCLC Number:
- 1539914
Journal du voleur
286 pages
French language
Published 1988 by Gallimard.
Thief's Journal.
256 pages
Undetermined language
Published 1965 by Blond.
Dorobō nikki
407 pages
Japanese language
Published 1968 by Shinchōsha.
Journal de voleur.
286 pages
French language
Published 1968 by Gallimard.
Journal du voleur
286 pages
French language
Published 1968 by Gallimard.
Journal du voleur.
286 pages
French language
Published 1949 by Gallimard.
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