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Funeral Rites

Funeral Rites

by JeanGenet (Author), B . Frechtman (Translator)

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    Paperback 1990

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Synopsis

This novel is set in Paris in 1944 when the withdrawal of the occupying forces plunged the city into moral and physical chaos. Genet's other works include "Miracle of the Rose", "Querelle of Brest", "Our Lady of the Flowers" and "The Thief's Journal".

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 30 Jul 1990
ISBN 10: 0571143644
ISBN 13: 9780571143641

Author Bio
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.