Funeral Rites (First Edition)

Jean Genet

Published by Grove Press, New York, 1969

About this Item

New York, Grove, 1969. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a near fine jacket. A clean tight copy, with some slight wear to jacket at head of spine. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($7.50). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. A novel, translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. Funeral Rites (1949) is a story of love and betrayal across political divides, written for the narrator's lover, Jean Decarnin, who was killed by the Germans in WWII. This is the fourth of Genet's prose works to be published in the U.S., 16 years after the French commercial printing, and another 8 years since it first appeared privately. Censorship kept his work from a wider audience, especially in the translated English versions, until Grove ultimately provided access.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Funeral Rites (First Edition)
• Publisher: Grove Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • French Literature