Funeral Rites by Bernard Frechtman, Jean Genet

Funeral Rites

Bernard Frechtman, Jean Genet

fiction lgbtqia+ challenging dark reflective slow-paced

256 pages | first published 1949

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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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