FUNERAL RITES • Jean Genet
Grove Press / 1969
Hardcover / 254 pages
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
︎Condition note: A used book in Acceptable - Good condition / Significant rubbing to front cover / Tearing and chipping to upper left corner of dustjacket / Price sticker residue on endpaper / Interior pages are clean and free of markings or underlinings
Grove Press / 1969
Hardcover / 254 pages
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
︎Condition note: A used book in Acceptable - Good condition / Significant rubbing to front cover / Tearing and chipping to upper left corner of dustjacket / Price sticker residue on endpaper / Interior pages are clean and free of markings or underlinings