The Life Experience of A Thief's Diary

According to French law, jean jeunet must continue to serve his sentence and may be exiled to an overseas island far from France. In order to save a talented thief writer, the "all-Paris literary circle" represented by Sartre and Cocteau wrote to the President of the United States, calling for pardon of the punishment imposed on Genet. There is a bright side to everything. jean jeunet is famous. There is "jean jeunet phenomenon" in the critical circle. 1949 On August 12, the French President issued an amnesty order for jean jeunet.

Jean jeunet's fate has changed, and his works are very popular in French literature. France's famous Garima Publishing House stepped up its editing of The Complete Works of Jean Young Nie, and asked Sartre to make a preface. Sartre gladly wrote a long preface entitled "The Comedian and Martyr Saint Genet", and criticized the thief writer as a saint, which was published as the first volume of the six-volume complete works. This is a miracle in the history of French literature and even the history of world literature. The thief Jean jeunet became a world-famous writer in one fell swoop.

Maybe he is used to the life of a thief, a wandering life and a life behind bars. Now I suddenly live in a luxury hotel and write freely, but I feel uncomfortable all over. He was incompatible with the mainstream society, but now he has to go with the flow and suddenly fall into an unspeakable mental depression. He told reporters: "Once I am free, I am lost." He was dull for several years and stopped writing for several years. But he did not forget Sartre's cautionary words: "The world is absurd and life is painful." After a period of reflection, he regained his creative vitality. He can find heaven in hell and see hell in heaven. At this time, the French absurd drama was surging, and Jean Junet was unwilling to be lonely. He wrote three famous plays, Balcony (1956), Black Slave (1958) and Screen (196 1), which became French absurd dramas. For a time, jean jeunet's works were famous at home and abroad. 1983 won the French national literature prize, which established his important position in the history of French literature.

Existence determines consciousness. Jean Jeanne has a natural sympathy for the suffering people. He once said that he is a "poor noodle made by extreme poverty", and poverty is his blood, his essence and his essence. After becoming famous, he expressed deep sympathy for the tragic situation of foreign immigrants living in France and publicly joined their demonstrations. He also actively supported the struggle between the Palestinian people and African-Americans, personally investigated the scene and wrote many articles to uphold justice for them.

From a thief to a great writer, the phenomenon of Jean Junette is indeed a peculiar landscape in the history of world literature. If you don't have a miserable first half as a thief, I'm afraid you won't have a second half as a great writer. The phenomenon of Jean jeunet is puzzling, and his autobiographical novel Diary of a Thief is probably an important clue to appreciate the mystery.

A thief's diary is not a real diary. In the living environment of vagrancy, begging, stealing and imprisonment, it is impossible for him to keep a diary, and even if he does, it is difficult to keep it completely. He said frankly in the book: "I wrote this book and lived in a luxury hotel in a world-class bustling metropolis." This book is a supplement, reminiscence, aftertaste, reflection and re-understanding of past life fragments, with obvious autobiographical nature. However, it is not an autobiography in the true sense. In his book, he portrayed several characters (some without real names) and told many other people's stories, with obvious novel characteristics. But it is not a real novel, not a fictional story. We have reason to believe that there is a real person in his book, and it is true, including the writer's self-confession. So this is an autobiographical novel written in the form of a diary, and its characteristics can be summarized by the word "really strange".

The first is "truth". As Sartre said, this diary is "all true" and "except true or true", from which people can find a "terrible truth" and a "sacred truth".

Real life, real experience, real suffering, real characters, real environment, real mentality, real beauty, real thoughts, real personal ugliness, real social pathology, real dirty soul are everywhere in the book.

Asked why he wanted to be a thief, he said, "The simplest motive is to eat." . He begged all the way, his mouth was thirsty, his eyes were burning, he was hungry, his body was shriveled, his face was sallow, he was described as depressed, and his body could not be dirtier. He walked from one village to another, and was warmly welcomed by the evil dog when he entered the village, and was sent away by the evil dog when he left the village. He is covered with lice. "Lice is the only symbol of our prosperity, but also a symbol of our poverty. It is reasonable to think that when we make a correct evaluation of this sign according to our own status quo, it is also the time to make a correct evaluation of our own status quo. "