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Jean Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War Two 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. Powerfully written, and with moments of great poetic subtlety, Funeral Rites is a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death. Translated by Bernard Frechtman
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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.
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Jean Genet was born in Paris in 1910. An illegitimate child who never knew his parents, he was abandoned to the Public Assistance Authorities. He was ten when he was sent to a reformatory for stealing; thereafter he spent time in the prisons of nearly every country he visited in thirty years of prowling through the European underworld. With ten convictions for theft in France to his credit he was, the eleventh time, condemned to life imprisonment. Eventually he was granted a pardon by President Auriol as a result of appeals from France's leading artists and writers led by Jean Cocteau.$$$His first novel, Our Lady of the Flowers, was written while he was in prison, followed by Miracle of the Rose, the autobiographical The Thief's Journal, Querelle of Brest and Funeral Rites. He wrote six plays: The Balcony, The Blacks, The Screens, The Maids, Deathwatch and Splendid's (the manuscript of which was rediscovered only in 1993). Jean Genet died in 1986.
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- PublisherFaber and Faber
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0571103812
- ISBN 13 9780571103812
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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Funeral Rites
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Faber and Faber, London, 1973
ISBN 10: 0571103812
ISBN 13: 9780571103812
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Black cloth with titles in glilt, octavo. A bright and clean copy with two corners bumped. In a price-clipped dust jacket with some light soiling to the white jacket. Jacket is in a mylar protector. First published in the UK by the legendary Anthony Blond, then later by Faber. Copies by either are scarce. Seller Inventory # 091902
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