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Funeral Rites Capa comum – 21 maio 2009

Edição Inglês por Jean Genet (Autor)

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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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Jean Genet was born in Paris in 1910. An illegitimate child who never knew his parents, he was abandoned to the Public Assistance Authorities. He was ten when he was sent to a reformatory for stealing; thereafter he spent time in the prisons of nearly every country he visited in thirty years of prowling through the European underworld. With ten convictions for theft in France to his credit he was, the eleventh time, condemned to life imprisonment. Eventually he was granted a pardon by President Auriol as a result of appeals from France's leading artists and writers led by Jean Cocteau.$$$His first novel, Our Lady of the Flowers, was written while he was in prison, followed by Miracle of the Rose, the autobiographical The Thief's Journal, Querelle of Brest and Funeral Rites. He wrote six plays: The Balcony, The Blacks, The Screens, The Maids, Deathwatch and Splendid's (the manuscript of which was rediscovered only in 1993). Jean Genet died in 1986.

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Editora ‏ : ‎ Faber & Faber; Main edição (21 maio 2009)
Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglês
Capa comum ‏ : ‎ 258 páginas
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0571251544
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571251544
Dimensões ‏ : ‎ 13.51 x 1.63 x 21.59 cm

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My book arrived promptly and it is exactly as advertised. Thank you!

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Eric Cooper

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Excellent novel.

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N Simpson

Difficult to read

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Only for those who enjoy an obscure view of Mr Genets situation at the time of the Second World War

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Dan Earle

A Challenge for me.

Avaliado no Canadá em 2 de junho de 2016

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This was a difficult read for me. That does not make it a bad book. I am just not fully prepared yet for the intricacies of this style of writing. I am going to have to go back to it. I really admire the existentialists of that period and have read Camus and others.

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H. Williams

A tough episodic book, funny and pornographic, poetic and disturbing, but perhaps with a few rewards

Avaliado nos Estados Unidos em 6 de novembro de 2011

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A fairly large number of The Book Discussion Group met at The LGBT Center in NYC in November to discuss "Funeral Rites" by Jean Genet. I'm constantly impressed at the smart and thoughtful commentary that the group was able to provide for such a disturbing book.

This is Genet's final novel before he moved on to drama. All of us found this to be one of hardest books we've read. While supposedly a loving eulogy of his late lover, Jean D., who was killed on the front lines during World War II, Genet created a meandering and episodic hell for readers. Genet shifts very suddenly from being the narrator to an active character in the story (including the eulogized Jean D., a Nazi soldier, and Jean of Arc).

The novel is full of gas and scatology, some of it rather funny. The language waivers between vivid hot sex and raunchy pornography.

The characters are generally unlikeable:
-- Giselle is the pretentious mother of Jean D, who is being eulogized.
-- Eric is a sexy German soldier on the lam, who is Giselle's lover and also has sex with fellow soldiers without any moralizing or restraint.
-- Juliette is Jean D's surviving fiancé, an unattractive orphan beggar who is raped at the funeral of Jean D's and her new-born daughter.
-- Paulo is Jean D's brother, who is depicted as having sex with Hitler at one point.
-- The Executioner (who also has sex with men) has a thick and beautiful neck but is responsible for cleaning up after Hitler's trysts with young boys. (Yes, this book is full of hallucinatory fantasy.)
-- Riton, however, is the most ambiguous and disturbing character. He is a handsome and repulsive soldier, who Genet loves as a French collaborator with the Nazis.

As disturbing as all this sounds, there are passages of amazing beauty and poetry. Genet raises important questions about the number French who collaborated with the invading Germans and French policemen who helped round up Jewish citizens. This is a tough read for general readers but offers some rewards once you get past the difficult narrative and characterizations.

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