The Thief's Journal
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title:
The Thief's Journal
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The Thief's Journal is a novel by Jean Genet. Although autobiographical to some degree, Genet’s exploitation of poetic language results in an ambiguity throughout the text. Superficially, the novel follows the author’s progress though 1930s Europe, wearing little and enduring hunger, contempt, and fatigue: “the life of the vermin”. The protagonist is “hot for crime” and romanticizes criminality as well as homosexuality, two facets of his identity that keep him ostracized from the general public.
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1949 novel by Jean Genet
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thief%27s_Journal
date created:
2005-05-21T11:23:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T17:53:32Z
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