The Thief's Journal

A Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most famous work of literature. The novel charts the author's progress through Europe in a curiously depolitisized 1930's, wearing nothing but rags and enduring hunger, contempt, fatigue and vice. Spain, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Nazi Germany, Belgium....everywhere is the same: bars, dives, flop-houses; robbery, prison and expulsion.

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This is a epic voyage of self-discovery, transcending moral laws; it is the philisophical expression of perverted vice; the working out of an aesthetic of degredation.

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