The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet

Author:Jean Genet [Genet, Jean]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf, epub
Tags: French Literature, Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Classics, Criminals & Outlaws
ISBN: 9780571340835
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1994-02-01T23:00:00+00:00

1 I used to toss my things any old place when we went to bed, but Stilitano laid his out on a chair, carefully arranging the trousers, jacket and shirt so that nothing would be creased. He seemed thereby to be endowing his clothes with life, as if wanting them to get a night's rest after a hard day.

1 The term la toilette also refers to certain kinds of wrappings or casings, for example, a tailor's or dressmaker's wrapper for garments, as well as to the caul over mutton.–Translator's note.

1 The name of the Scheldt in French is L'Escaut.–Translator's note.

1 The reader is informed that this report on my inner life or what it suggests will be only a song of love. To be exact, my life was the preparation for erotic adventures (not play) whose meaning I now wish to discover. Alas, heroism is what seems to me most charged with amorous properties, and since there are no heroes except in our minds, they will therefore have to be created. So I have recourse to words. Those which I use, even if I attempt an explanation by means of them, will sing. Was what I wrote true? False? Only this book of love will be real. What of the facts which served as its pretext? I must be their repository. It is not they that I am restoring.

1 I have to leave this name blank.

1 When, a few days ago, Pierre Fièvre, the son of a state trooper and himself a probationary policemen (he's twenty-one years old), told me that he wanted to be a cop so as to have a motorcycle, I got an erection. I again saw Stilitano's buttocks flattened against the leather seat of the stolen machine.

1 1947. I have just read in an evening paper that he was arrested for an armed assault in the dark. The article says: “. . . the handsome cripple was pale . . .” Reading this causes me no emotion.

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