Journal du voleur (English)

Japanese: 《Journal du voleur》(英語表記)Journalduvoleur
Journal du voleur (English)

...Cocteau, JP Sartre, F. Mauriac, P. Claudel and others petitioned the president for a pardon, and Genet was able to make a living as a writer. However, the publication of his novel Journal du voleur by Gallimard (1949) and Sartre's Saint Genet, actor and martyr (1952), which was to be the opening volume of the same publisher's Collected Works of Genet, put an end to Genet's work as a novelist. Genet fell into a kind of "blank state" due to Sartre's detailed and extensive analysis in this work, and "was no longer able to write," but as he wrote in his Letter to Jean-Jacques Paubert, written in 1954 on the occasion of the revival of The Maids, he was able to achieve a rebirth as a writer through theater. ...

*Some of the terminology referenced in "Journal du voleur" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…コクトー,J.P.サルトル,F.モーリヤック,P.クローデルらによる大統領への特赦請願が功を奏して,以後,ジュネは作家として生活するようになる。だがガリマール社による小説《泥棒日記Journal du voleur》の刊行(1949)と,同社刊の《ジュネ全集》の巻頭を飾るはずのサルトルの《聖ジュネ――役者にして殉教者Saint Genet――comédien et martyre》(1952)が,小説家ジュネの活動には終止符を打ってしまう。この中でのサルトルの精密で膨大な分析によって一種の〈空白状態〉に陥り,〈物を書くことができなくなった〉ジュネは,54年,《女中たち》の再演に際して書いた〈ジャン・ジャック・ポーベールあての手紙〉で語っているように,演劇によって作家としての再生を果たすことができた。…

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