Funeral Rites

Funeral Rites - Paperback

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Funeral Rites - Paperback

Funeral Rites - Paperback

by Jean Genet
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by Jean Genet (Author), Bernard Frechtman (Translator)

Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War II unfolds between the poles of his grief for his lover Jean, killed in the Resistance during the liberation of Paris, and his perverse attraction to the collaborator Riton. Elegaic, macabre, chimerical, Funeral Rites is a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death.

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Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War II France unfolds between the poles of his grief for his lover Jean, killed in the Resistance during the liberation of Paris, and his perverse attraction to the collaborator Riton. Elegiac, macabre, chimerical, it is a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death.

Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 0.68 x 8.21 x 5.37 IN
Publication Date: January 18, 1994
ISBN9780802130877
Author Jean Genet
PublisherGrove Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 1994
LanguageENG- English
Pages256
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Jean Genet (1910 - 1986) was "a pioneering author of confessional novels and a dramatist of the first magnitude" (New York Times). His many books include Our Lady of the Flowers, Querelle, The Miracle of the Rose, Funeral Rites, The Balcony, The Maids and Deathwatch, The Blacks, and The Screens.

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