Funeral Rites
Jean Genet
ISBN 10: 0802130879 ISBN 13: 9780802130877
Published by Grove Press, 1994
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Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War I 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. Seller Inventory # 00110296315
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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.
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.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Funeral Rites
Publisher: Grove Press
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good