The Thief's Journal (Modern Classics) - Softcover

Genet, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140025820 ISBN 13: 9780140025828

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 1967

Synopsis

This is an autobiographical account of Genet's progress through Europe from Spain in the 1930s, telling of his life of crime and his exile in the company of beggars, thieves and homosexuals.

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Review:

Genet has dramatized the story of his own life with a power and vision which take the breath away . . . One of the strongest and most vital accounts of a life ever set down on paper . . . The Thief’s Journal will undoubtedly establish Genet as one of the most daring literary figures of all time. (New York Post)

A literary creation of great importance and midnight beauty. (Library Journal)

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)

Book Description:

A beautiful new edition of Jean Genet's classic work -- part of a revitalising repackage of all of Genet's novels for 2018.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0140025820
• ISBN 13: 9780140025828
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224