Thief's Journal

Thief's Journal Synopsis

The mist beautiful book that Genet has written. Jean-Paul SartreThe Thiefs Journal is perhaps Jean Genets most authentically biographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil. Writing in the intensely lyrical prose style that is his trademark, the man Jean Cocteau dubbed Frances Black Prince of Letters here reconstructs his early adult yearstime he spent as a petty criminal and vagabond, traveling through Spain and Antwerp, occasionally border hopping across the rest of Europe, always one step ahead of the authorities