GENET, Jean.

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GENET, Jean.
Le Journal du voleur. 3 sets of typescripts, in sheets, in modern red half-maroquin slipcase. Reunion of three series of typescripts of the Journal du voleur. They are of unequal importance. There are: - 197 leaves in-4, paginated in pencil 1-191 (with unnumbered duplicates), bringing together several strikes with typed foliations of 1-4, 1-91, 1-57, 1-27 and 1-13, and two unpaginated leaves, in blue carbon, repeating the same passage ("If one speaks of a man's violence..."), with a handwritten indication of page layout, in pencil. These sheets bear a few rare handwritten corrections (typographical errors) with the exception of the sheets paginated 1-57, in carbon copy. In a folder with the autograph mention : "Complet". COMPLETE TYPESCRIPT OFFERING AN INTERMEDIATE STATE OF THE NOVEL. It offers punctual variants (of vocabulary or of name: thus Sylvia, the companion of Stilitano, is sometimes named Sonia), less developed or absent passages, different connections and sequence of the narrative, and some sentences finally not retained. It is a typing very close to the manuscript dated October 1947 (described above), but with a more developed text. The first pages correspond to the final version (beginning with the description of the convicts' clothing). There are more passages on the narrator's relationship with Robert. The pages concerning the presentation of the characters of Java and Guy are preceded by their names, written in the center in capital letters. - 36 leaves in-4, with typewritten folios 1-36, and, in red pencil, page numbers, 5-255. DACTYLOGRAPHY OF 22 ADDITIONS, WHICH WERE INSERTED IN THE FINAL VERSION. - 7 leaves in-4, paginated in pencil 192-198, with typewritten foliation 1-7. TEXT NOT RETAINED IN FINAL VERSION. It begins with an ethical reflection on some of these so-called vile acts, based on the postulates of Riemann and Lobachevski, then continues with episodes from his early childhood, with the death of his foster mother, his peasant youth with the encounter of a first homosexual love with the young cowherd, Jacques Brillant, and ends with a parallel between the dress of the convicts at Mettray and that of the deportees of the Hitler regime. It is possible that this text was intended for the second volume of the Diary, which never appeared, in which Genet intended to describe and comment on "these celebrations of an intimate prison that I discover in myself after crossing this country of mine that I have named Spain," as he wrote in the last lines of the Diary of the Thief. A copy of the Journal du voleur (Gallimard, 1971), with handwritten annotations, in pencil, referring to additions, variants and swapped passages found in the handwritten and typed pages, is attached.
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