whale the boar reviewed The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet
Genet’s bundle of grapes
5 stars
Definitely a distillation of a certain moment in European history. Genet’s semi-autobiographical, semi-mythical account of his travels is entertaining, sometimes poignant, and often melancholy. Really more of a disconnected anthology of anecdotes. He claims to write heroic prose, but the mode is less Dorian and more Mixolydian.
