The Thief's Journal

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

The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel; an account of his impoverished travels across 1930s Europe. The narrator is guilty of vagrancy, petty theft and prostitution, but his writing transforms such degradations into an inverted moral code, where criminality...