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Funeral Rites

4/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Grove Press

Release: January 18, 1994

ISBN: 0802130879

ISBN 13: 9780802130877

Funeral Rites

4/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Grove Press

Release: January 18, 1994

ISBN: 0802130879

ISBN 13: 9780802130877

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