Querelle of Brest (Faber Classics) - Softcover

Genet, Jean

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9780571203673: Querelle of Brest (Faber Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0571203671 ISBN 13: 9780571203673

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2000

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Jean Genet's notorious novel follows a young sailor at large in the fetid, stinking Port of Brest. Querelle is an assassin, dealer in opium, homosexual, thief and traitor. His encounters with the Port's inhabitants - his superior officer, Lt Seblon, Mario, the brothel-keeper's husband, a murderer in hiding - lead to a series of violent and shocking adventures.

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About the Author:

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 r

Synopsis:

Set in the port of Brest, this book is the story of a young sailor and the evil and mysterious people whom he attracts. The author has also written "Our Lady of the Flowers" and "Funeral Rites" and was closely allied to the French intellectuals led by the late Jean Cocteau.

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