Jean Genet began to write his third novel in late 1943, but the piece was to be changed utterly by the death of Jean Decarnin in August 1944, after which Genet completed the novel that autumn and entitled it Pompes funebres (Funeral Rites).
Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of the Second World War (translated by Bernard Frechtman) 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. Powerfully written, and with moments of great poetic subtlety, Funeral Rites is a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death.
'Funeral Rites is quite possibly an evil book. It is clearly a brilliant book . . . a seminal document in the development of one of the most important literary imaginations of our time.' Washington Post-Times Herald
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Presents a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death. This book is a sensual and brutal portrait of a love story during the second world war, which unfolds between the poles of the author's grief for his lover Jean, killed in the resistance during the liberation of Paris.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780571251544
Publisert
2009-05-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Vekt
320 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256
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