Funeral Rites - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780802130877

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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

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