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| Author | Jean Genet |
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| Original title | Journal du voleur |
| Translator | Bernard Frechtman |
| Language | French |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Gallimard (original French), Grove Press (English translation) |
Publication date | 1949 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1964 |
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The Thief's Journal (Journal du voleur, published in 1949) is a novel by Jean Genet. Although autobiographical to some degree, Genet’s exploitation of poetic language results in an ambiguity throughout the text. Superficially, the novel follows the author’s progress though 1930s Europe, wearing little and enduring hunger, contempt, and fatigue: “the life of the vermin”.[1] The protagonist is “hot for crime” [2] and romanticizes criminality as well as homosexuality, two facets of his identity that keep him ostracized from the general public.
- ^ Genet, Jean (2015). The Thief's Journal. Faber and Faber. p. 12. ISBN 978-0571250332.
- ^ Genet, Jean (2015). The Thief's Journal. Faber and Faber. p. 3. ISBN 978-0571250332.