The Thief's Journal
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (711 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802130143 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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"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; "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." -- The New York Post. Genet has dramatized the story of his own life with a power and vision which take the breath away. The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical 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 France's "Black Prince of Letters" he
Language Notes Text: English, French (translation)
An illegitimate child who never knew his parents, he was abandoned to the Public Assistance Authorities. He wrote six plays: The Balcony, The Blacks, The Screens, The Maids, Deathwatch and Splendid's (the manuscript of which was rediscovered only in 1993). Jean Genet was born in Paris in 1910. . Wi
greyfell said Read this book. Pure poetry. Genius.. "beautiful work" according to PuppyTalk. I've read the Japanese translation of this book several times some years ago. It is a well known fact that western languages are so very difficult to transltate into Japanese language, but this book did not seem to suffer as much as others.It is intellectually very satisfying, the language is exceptionally beautiful, and more than anything else, it is very gentle.It does not have m. "The Long Walk to Nihilistic Authenticity" according to Herbert L Calhoun. Genet, as this his first book aptly proves, is understood best when he has an interpreter: ideally the iconic Jean Paul Sartre (or as I later discovered in the review section as I was about to post this review, Mr. J.E. Barnes). Thus, I feel like I have cheated in having first read Sartre's "Saint Genet, in which all of Genet's works are put in a proper psychological context. I am