The Thief's Journal Author:Jean Genet 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 is the same: bars, dives, flop-houses, robbery, prison, and expulsion. — This is a voyage of discovery beyond all moral laws, the expr... more »ession of a philosophy of perverted vice, the working out of an aesthetic of degradation.« less