From the Cover: In this, his most famous book, Genet charts his progress through Europe and the 1930s in rags, hunger, contempt, fatigue and vice. Spain, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Nazi Germany, Belgium . . . everywhere the pattern is the same: bars, dives, flop-houses; robbery, prison and expulsion. This is a voyage of discovery beyond all moral laws; the expression of a philosophy of perverted vice, the working out of an aesthetic of degradation. The cover shows 'Head on Stand' (1947)b y Alberto Giacometti, in the Maeght Collection.

London. Penguin Classics. 1950s? THIS BOOK CONTAINS MARK-UP