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An edition of Journal du voleur (1949)

Journal du voleur.

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The Thief's Journal (Journal du voleur, published in 1949) is a novel by Jean Genet. It is a part-fact, part-fiction autobiography that charts the author's progress through Europe in a depoliticized 1930s, wearing nothing but rags and enduring hunger, contempt, fatigue and vice. The main character encounters bars, dives, flophouses, robbery, prison and expulsion in Spain, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Nazi Germany and Belgium.

The novel is structured around a series of homosexual love affairs and male prostitution between the author/anti-hero and various criminals, con artists, pimps, and a detective.

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Publisher
Gallimard
Language
French
Pages
286

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Subjects
Fiction, French Authors, Gay authors, Gay men, Prisoners, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Genet, jean, 1910-1986, Romance literature, LGBTQ novels before Stonewall, Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author)
People
Jean Genet (1910-1986)
Places
France
Times
20th century

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The Thief's Journal
2019, Faber & Faber
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The Thief's Journal (Genet, Jean)
February 2, 1994, Grove Press
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The thief's journal
1988, Grove Press
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Journal Du Voleur
June 1966, Gallimard
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The thief's journal: Translated [from the French] by Bernard Frechtman
1965, A. Blond
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Journal du voleur
1949, Gallimard
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1949, Gallimard
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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
843.91
Library of Congress
PQ2613.E53 J6

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Pagination
286 p.
Number of pages
286

ID Numbers

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OL6064437M
LCCN
50000149
OCLC/WorldCat
1539914

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