The Thief's Journal - Genet Jean

In this, his most famous book, Genet charts his progress through Europe and the 1930s in rags, hunger, contempt, fatigue and vice. Spain, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Nazi Germany, Belgium... everywhere the pattern is the same: bars, dives, flop-houses robbery, prison and expulsion.This is a voyage of discovery beyond all oral laws the expression of a philosophy of perverted vice, the working out of an aesthetic of degradation.