Funeral Rites

Genet, M. Jean

ISBN 10: 0571143644 / ISBN 13: 9780571143641

Published by Faber and Faber, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Funeral Rites
• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571143644
• ISBN 13: 9780571143641
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 140.6 grams

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Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

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.