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Funeral Rites

by Jean Genet · 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, chimerical, Funeral Rites is a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death.

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LGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of thisgaygayMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thiswar and militarywar and militaryMore like thisLess of this
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LGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of thissexualitysexualityMore like thisLess of this
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World War IIWorld War IIMore like thisLess of thisParisParisMore like thisLess of thisEuropeEuropeMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages
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