Funeral Rites von Jean Genet

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Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts into a poetic literature, with an honesty and explicitness unprecedented at the time. Widely considered an outstanding and unique figure in French literature, Genet wrote five novels between 1942 and 1947, now being republished by Faber & Faber in beautiful new paperback editions.

Jean Genet began to write his third novel in 1943, but it was to be changed utterly by the death of Jean Decarnin. Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of the Second World War 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.

Includes a new introduction by Neil Bartlett.


Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts into a poetic literature, with an honesty and explicitness unprecedented at the time. Widely considered an outstanding and unique figure in French literature, Genet wrote five novels between 1942 and 1947, now being republished by Faber & Faber in beautiful new paperback editions.

Jean Genet began to write his third novel in 1943, but it was to be changed utterly by the death of Jean Decarnin. Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of the Second World War 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.

Includes a new introduction by Neil Bartlett.


AutorGenet, Jean
EinbandKartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr2019
Seitenangabe272 S.
LieferstatusLieferbar in 24 Stunden
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
MasseH19.8 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.6 cm 218 g
CoverlagFaber & Faber (Imprint/Brand)
VerlagFaber & Faber

Über den Autor Jean Genet

Jean Genet, geboren am 19. Dezmber 1910 in Paris, kam als uneheliches Kind im Alter von fünfzehn Jahren in die Besserungsanstalt. Er brach aus, trat in die Fremdenlegion ein, floh, verkaufte seine Jugend, vagabundierte durch neun Länder, stahl, ließ sich aushalten, lebte unter fünfzehn verschiedenen Namen, war zwischen 1937 und 1943 dreizehnmal zu Gefängnis verurteilt und aus fünf Ländern ausgewiesen worden. 1942 schrieb er im Gefängnis seinen ersten Roman «Notre-Dame des Fleurs»; er widmete ihn einem Mörder. Mit diesem Buch, einem ersten Akt der Selbstbefreiung, einem ersten Versuch des Selbstverständnisses, trat Genet aus jener Finsternis heraus. Seine Gedichte, Romane und Dramen wurden in Frankreich und anderen Ländern, zeitweise auch in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, verboten. Jean Genet starb am 15. April 1986 in Paris.

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