num_pages: 256
description: Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War II 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. Elegaic, macabre, chimerical, Funeral Rites is a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death.
language: English
title: Funeral Rites
titlecomplete: Funeral Rites
genres: 20th Century, French Literature, LGBT, Novels, Queer, Gay, Literature, Classics, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 988
places: France
publisher: Grove Press