Information: - The Thief 's Journal ( Journal du voleur ) is perhaps Jean Genet 's most famous work . It is a part - fact , part - fiction autobiography that charts the author 's progress through Europe in a curiously depoliticized 1930s , wearing nothing but rags and enduring 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 . The novel is structured around a series of homosexual love affairs and male prostitution between the author / anti-hero and various criminals , con artists , pimps , and even a detective . A common theme is the inversion of ideals : betrayal is the ultimate form of devotion , petty delinquency is brazen heroism , and confinement is freedom . Under the inspiration of '' Being and Nothingness '' , this work is affirmed to be the '' pursuit of the impossible nothingness '' and it was dedicated to Jean - Paul Sartre and '' Castor '' , i.e. Simone de Beauvoir . Sartre wrote his essay '' Saint Genet '' , influenced by this work , in 1952 . Genet appropriates Christian language and concepts to pursue an alternative form of '' sainthood '' with its own trinity of '' virtues '' - homosexuality , theft , and betrayal . Each burglary is set up as quasi-religious ritual , and the narrator describes his self - preparation for his crimes like that of a monk in a vigil of prayer , readying himself for a '' holy '' life . He establishes a '' constructed reader , '' a fictional personification of the bourgeois values of the late 1940s , against which to measure his deviance from the '' norms '' of society . The novel is a voyage of self - discovery , transcending moral laws ; it is the philosophical expression of perverted vice ; the working out of an aesthetic of degradation . - The Balcony is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. Set in an unnamed city that is experiencing a revolutionary uprising in the streets, most of the action takes place in an upmarket brothel that functions as a microcosm of the regime of the establishment under threat outside. - Our Lady of the Flowers ("Notre Dame des Fleurs") is the debut novel of French writer Jean Genet, first published in 1943. The free-flowing, poetic novel is a largely autobiographical account of a man's journey through the Parisian underworld. The characters are drawn after their real-life counterparts, who are mostly homosexuals living on the fringes of society. - Querelle is a 1982 West German-French English-language drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Brad Davis, adapted from French author Jean Genet's 1947 novel "Querelle de Brest". It marked Fassbinder's final film as a writer/director; it was posthumously released just months after the director died of a drug overdose in June 1982. - Querelle of Brest is a novel by the French writer Jean Genet. It was first published anonymously in 1947 and limited to 460 numbered copies. It is set in the midst of the port town of Brest, where sailors and the sea are associated with murder. Its protagonist, Georges Querelle, is a bisexual thief, prostitute and serial killer who manipulates and kills his lovers for thrills and profit. The novel formed the basis for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's last film, "Querelle" (1982). - The Maids is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. It was first performed at the Theatre de l'Athenee in Paris in a production that opened on 17 April 1947, which Louis Jouvet directed. - Europe is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia. Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. To the east and southeast, Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways of the Turkish Straits. Yet the non-oceanic borders of Europea concept dating back to classical antiquityare arbitrary. The primarily physiographic term "continent" as applied to Europe also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent's current overland boundaries. - Jean Genet ( ) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. His major works include the novels "Querelle of Brest", "The Thief's Journal", and "Our Lady of the Flowers", and the plays "The Balcony", "The Blacks", "The Maids" and "The Screens". - The Turkish Straits are a series of internationally-significant waterways in northwestern Turkey that connect the Aegean and Mediterranean seas to the Black Sea. - Classical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is a term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world. It is the period in which Greek and Roman society flourished and wielded great influence throughout Europe, North Africa and Southwestern Asia. - The Black Sea is a body of water between Eastern Europe and Western Asia, bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine. It is supplied by a number of major rivers, such as the Danube, Dnieper, Rioni, Southern Bug, and Dniester. The Black Sea has an area of (not including the Sea of Azov), a maximum depth of , and a volume of . It is constrained by the Pontic Mountains to the south and by the Caucasus Mountains to the east, and features a wide shelf to the northwest. The longest east-west extent is about . - The Screens is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. Its first few productions all used abridged versions, beginning with its world premiere under Hans Lietzau's direction in Berlin in May 1961. Its first complete performance was staged in Stockholm in 1964, two years before Roger Blin directed its French premiere in Paris. - The Ural or Jayq/Zhayyq (, ), known as Yaik before 1775, is a river flowing through Russia and Kazakhstan in Eurasia. It originates in the southern Ural Mountains and ends at the Caspian Sea. At , it is the third-longest river in Europe after the Volga and the Danube, and the 18th-longest river in Asia. The Ural River is conventionally considered part of the boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia. What entity does 'the thief's journal' has the relation 'original language of work' with?
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french