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The Thief's Journal by: Jean Genet List Price: £7.95 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £7.49 You Save: £0.46 ( 6%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781596541375 ISBN: 1596541377 Label: olympiapress.com Manufacturer: olympiapress.com Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 212 Publication Date: December 01, 2004 Publisher: olympiapress.com Studio: olympiapress.com Sales Rank: 71424 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Don't trust it if you're studying it in frenchFor anyone studying a foreign language text, a translation is a great way to get the gist of it without having to plough through it with a dictionary first. If you ARE studying Journal du Voleur though, beware of this one. Although it is, for the most part, a pretty faithful version, the translator, for reasons best left to himself, has inserted great chunks of narrative that don't feature in the original, mostly to do with Genet's sexual encounters, so for god's sake don't put all your faith in this version. For those of you who have no idea about Genet, he was a homosexual writer who counted Cocteau and Sarte among his friends and supporters and wrote The Thief's Journal in the late forties. It is based on his experiences of being ... Read More: |
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