Essay Archive - The Thief's Journal: The Prince of Thieves - Genet
The Thief's Journal: The Prince of Thieves - Genet
Genet, the main character as well as author of The Thief's Journal,
revels with gusto in the abjection, poverty, and treachery of thievery in
order to introduce to this book's readers a new and gripping look into the
life of a social outcast and the subculture born of abjection. Although he
recounts experiences in the Guyana prison, his string of lovers,
prostituting on the streets of Europe, and the poverty in which he
flourished with disturbing and revolting accuracy, none of these
descriptions are told with any....
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