The Thief's Journal
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (866 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802130143 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil. "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. Writing in the intensely lyrical prose style that is his trademark, the man Jean Cocteau dubbed France's "Black Prince of Letters" here reconstructs his early adult years -- time 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. 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
Language Notes Text: English, French (translation)
"Read this book" according to greyfell. 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 many dialogs, and not a story, since it's a journal, but it's a very readable book and easy to follow even for someone like me who can only read books in a story-telling format.If you feel like something gentle, this bo. "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 not sure I could have gotten the full import of this book without Sartre's (and now Mr. Barnes') help.Genet's dark, exquisite interior prose occupies a higher dimension in a universe on the plane above the heads of our
Eventually he was granted a pardon by President Auriol as a result of appeals from France's leading artists and writers led by Jean Cocteau.$$$His first novel, Our Lady of the Flowers, was written while he was in prison, followed by Miracle of the Rose, the autobiographical The Thief's Journal, Querelle of Brest and Funeral Rites. Jean Genet was born in Paris in 1910. An illegitimate child who never knew his parents, he was abandoned to the Public Assistance Authorities. With ten convictions fo