Funeral Rites

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Genet, Genet Jean
• Assisted by: Bernard Frechtman (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.1994
• EAN: 9780802130877
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3087-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Series: Genet, Jean; Genet, Jean
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; France, Fiction in translation, Relating to Gay, Lesbian & bisexual people, TOPICAL / LGBT, evil;Yeats;sex;death;Kafka;Proust