GENET, Jean.

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GENET, Jean.
Le Journal du voleur. Autograph fragments accompanied by their typing, mounted on tabs: 2 volumes in-folio under soft red morocco cover, blue morocco lining. Copious set of autograph manuscripts accompanied by their typing. It includes 136 autograph pages of various sizes on sheets of squared school paper, some cut out, in blue or black ink, or in pencil. It consists of a large number of additions and modifications intended to be inserted into the body of the text, but also working manuscripts of entire passages. On the verso of about ten of these sheets, there are autograph additions of one to two lines. Following or opposite the autograph notes (ranging from a few lines to several pages), we have mounted the typed version of most of them, on 83 in-4 or in-8 sheets. The autograph sheets show numerous corrections, sometimes in two different inks, leaving visible, under the strikethroughs, unpublished passages. Several of the autograph passages are found in the original 1948 edition, but will be partly expunged in the 1949 Gallimard edition. Two of the typewritten pages also show autograph corrections, including an unpublished passage, crossed out, on Genet's arrest by Tourange peasants after his escape from the Mettray colony. AT THE HEAD OF THE FIRST VOLUME, TWO SIGNED AUTOGRAPH LEAVES HAVE BEEN MOUNTED. The first one is a sending: Jean Genet // Journal du voleur // This first part must be placed at the very beginning of the book // Amitiés // Genet . The second is: This part is at the end of everything // Genet. This last sheet refers to the set of autograph pages, numbered by Genet from 1 to 16, which have been mounted in the second volume, after a sheet bearing the autograph mention: END of the Diary. It is not, however, the last page of the novel, but the last mention of the character of Armand (p. 1287-1299, ed. La Pléiade), with a previously unpublished variant, which is not found in the attached typescript: For me, Armand justified his power even more: it also came from misfortune, from abjection. This paper lace had the same fragile structure, little made for your world [morals], as the tricks of the beggar. It belonged to the artifice, it was postiche as much as the wounds, the stumps, the blindnesses.
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