The Thief’s Journal

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The Thief’s Journal

work by Genet

Also known as: “Journal du voleur”

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Jean Genet
…autobiographical Journal du voleur (1949; The Thief’s Journal) gives a complete and uninhibited account of his life as a tramp, pickpocket, and male prostitute in Barcelona, Antwerp, and various other cities (c. 1930–39). It also reveals him as an aesthete, an existentialist, and a pioneer of the Absurd.
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…autobiographical Journal du voleur (1949; The Thief’s Journal) gives a complete and uninhibited account of his life as a tramp, pickpocket, and male prostitute in Barcelona, Antwerp, and various other cities (c. 1930–39). It also reveals him as an aesthete, an existentialist, and a pioneer of the Absurd.
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