The Thief's Journal

268 pp. Foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. Genet's fictionalized and distant account of his rambles through France, Czechoslavakia, Germany and elsewhere in the '30s and '40s, covering his time in prison, his relationships with men such as the one-armed Stilitano, along with erotic accounts of his lovers during the period, and interspersed with meditation and daydreams.