Question

The author of “The Thief’s Journal” has actually been a thief. Who is he?

Answer 1

The Thief's Journal (Journal du voleur) is a novel by Jean Genet. It is a part-fact, part-fiction autobiography that charts the author's progress through Europe in a depoliticized 1930s, wearing nothing but rags and enduring hunger, contempt, fatigue and vice.

Answer 2

The Thief's Journal. The Thief's Journal (Journal du voleur) is a novel by Jean Genet. It is a part-fact, part-fiction autobiography that charts the author's progress through Europe in a depoliticized 1930s, wearing nothing but rags and enduring hunger, contempt, fatigue and vice.