Part 1 of Essay
Genet, the main character as well as author of The Thief's Journal, revels with gusto in the abjection, poverty, and treachery of thievery in order to introduce to this book's readers a new and gripping look into the life of a social outcast and the subculture born of abjection. Although he recounts experiences in the Gu ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... way of life is alien as well. For example, he sees intimacy in the sharing of lice between himself and Salvador. Salvador took care of me, but at night, by candlelight, I hunted for lice in the seams of his trousers. The lice inhabited us. They imparted to our clothes an animation, a presence which, when they had gone, left our garments lifeless. We liked to know -and feel- that the translucent bugs were swarming; though not tamed, they were so much a part of us that a third person's louse disgusted us ....