The Thief's Journal

by Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre (Foreword by), Patti Smith (Introduction)

Overview

Patti Smith has written a new introduction for The Thief’s Journal, Jean Genet’s most autobiographical novel—which follows the years he spent as a vagrant and petty criminal—hailed by Jean-Paul Sartre as Genet’s “most beautiful book”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802128270
Publisher:	Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date:	08/21/2018
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	187,834
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jean Genet (1910 – 1986) was “a pioneering author of confessional novels and a dramatist of the first magnitude” (New York Times). His many books include Our Lady of the Flowers, Querelle, The Miracle of the Rose, Funeral Rites, The Balcony, The Maids and Deathwatch, The Blacks, and The Screens.

Editorial Reviews

PRAISE FOR THE THIEF’S JOURNAL

“One of the strongest and most vital accounts of a life ever set down on paper . . . Genet has dramatized the story of his own life with a power and vision which take the breath away . . . [he is] one of the most daring literary figures of all time.” —New York Post

“Genet is one of those creatures who sum up or express the potentialities of an entire species or form even as its life is passing from it . . . one of the most striking things about Genet’s work, and especially The Thief’s Journal, is the consciousness with which it is suffused.” —Steven Marcus, New York Review of Books

“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

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