Querelle of Brest: M. Jean Genet - Softcover

Genet, M. Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571340814 ISBN 13: 9780571340811

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2019

Synopsis

A beautiful new edition of Jean Genet's classic work, which includes a new introduction by Jon Savage.

'One of the great writers of our times.' Sunday Telegraph

Querelle, a young sailor at large in the port of Brest, is an object of illicit desire to his diary-keeping superior officer, Lieutenant Seblon. He is coveted, too, by a corrupt policeman, Mario, and gives himself freely both to brothel-keeper Madame Lysiane and to her husband. But Querelle is a thief and a murderer - not a man to be trusted or trifled with.

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About the Authors

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.

Bernard Frechtman was the acclaimed translator of works by Sartre, Genet, Picasso and Céline.

From the Back Cover

A beautiful new edition of Jean Genet's classic work, which includes a new introduction by Jon Savage.

'One of the great writers of our times.' Sunday Telegraph

Querelle, a young sailor at large in the port of Brest, is an object of illicit desire to his diary-keeping superior officer, Lieutenant Seblon. He is coveted, too, by a corrupt policeman, Mario, and gives himself freely both to brothel-keeper Madame Lysiane and to her husband. But Querelle is a thief and a murderer - not a man to be trusted or trifled with.

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0571340814
• ISBN 13: 9780571340811
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320