Funeral Rites by Jean Genet

Funeral Rites

Jean Genet with Neil Bartlett (Contributor), Bernard Frechtman (Translator)

256 pages first pub 1949 (editions) user-added

fiction lgbtqia+ challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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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, chimer...

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