The Thief's Journal

Genet, Jean

ISBN 10 : 0140180893 ISBN 13 : 9780140180893

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1990

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Part-autobiography, part-fiction - 'a Genet with a Genet stuffing, like the prunes of Tours', as Sartre put it - The Thief's Journal is an account of Genet's impoverished travels across Europe in the 1930s. Encompassing vagrancy, petty theft, and prostitution, the book transforms such degradations into the gilded rites of an inverted moral code, with Genet its most devout adherent. Betrayal becomes worship; delinquency, heroism. The skeleton of the work is a series of gay encounters between the 'hero' and a succession of shady figures - the con artist, the pimp, the detective even - from the European demi-monde. Appropriating the language of the Church, Genet creates a homily to a trinity of his own making - homosexuality, theft and deception. First published in 1949, The Thief's Journal is justly regarded as a masterpiece of existentialist prose, and is a milestone in the history of gay literature.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Genet's fictionalized and distant account of his rambles through France, Czechoslovakia, Germany and elsewhere in the '30s and '40s, covering his time in prison, his relationships with men such as the one-armed Stilitano, along with erotic accounts of his lovers during the period, and interspersed with meditation and daydreams.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140180893
• ISBN 13: 9780140180893
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 224