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Thief's Journal by Jean Genet (2018, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherGROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated

ISBN-100802128270

ISBN-139780802128270

eBay Product ID (ePID)240218284

Product Key Features

Book TitleThief's Journal

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLgbt / Gay, Literary

Publication Year2018

GenreFiction

AuthorJean Genet

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight9.5 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-354248

ReviewsPRAISE FOR THE THIEF'S JOURNAL "One of the strongest and most vital accounts of a life ever set down on paper . . . Genet has dramatized the story of his own life with a power and vision which take the breath away . . . [he is] one of the most daring literary figures of all time." -- New York Post "Genet is one of those creatures who sum up or express the potentialities of an entire species or form even as its life is passing from it . . . one of the most striking things about Genet's work, and especially The Thief's Journal , is the consciousness with which it is suffused." -- Steven Marcus, New York Review of Books "Only a handful of twentieth-century writers, such as Kafka and Proust, have as important, as authoritative, as irrevocable a voice and style." -- Susan Sontag

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Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal843.914

SynopsisFirst published in France in 1949, The Thief's Journal is Jean Genet's iconic work of autobiographical fiction. This new edition brings his legendary genius to future generations of readers, with an introduction by Genet's great admirer, Patti Smith. From a prison cell, the journal's narrator recounts his travels across Europe in the 1930s--as a vagabond, pickpocket, and occasional prostitute--in pursuit of spiritual fulfilment through erotic trysts and evil deeds. Worshipping his own holy trinity of homosexuality, theft, and betrayal, he conducts every burglary, and each sexual encounter, with the elaborate, reverent ritual of a religious ceremony. Dressed in rags and stealing for his survival, he must evade the authorities for as long as possible. A sensuous and philosophical reverie on freedom within confinement, the heroism of the outlaw, and deception as the ultimate act of devotion, The Thief's Journal exemplifies the exquisitely lyrical combination of fact and fiction that made Genet a major figure in world literature., Patti Smith has written a new introduction for The Thief's Journal , Jean Genet's most autobiographical novel--which follows the years he spent as a vagrant and petty criminal--hailed by Jean-Paul Sartre as Genet's "most beautiful book"

LC Classification NumberPQ2613.E53J613 2018