Funeral Rites
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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802130877 (0802130879)
Publish date: January 18th 1994
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
War,
France,
French Literature,
World War II,
Glbt,
Queer,
Gay
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