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Querelle
Paperback
Series: Genet, Jean
Publisher Price: $15.00
ISBN13: 9780802151575
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Jan 13 1994
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.57 Depth: 8.53
Language: English
It is awesome, perhaps the finest novel I have ever read in my life. It literally sent shivers through me, the sheer beauty of the language, the exquisite perversity of the imagination, the incredible grasp of motivation-it is his most tightly plotted, best organized, most accessible novel. It is a wonder. -Dotson Rader
Querelle is regarded by many critics as Jean Genet's highest achievement in the novel-certainly one of the landmarks of postwar French literature. The story of a dangerous man seduced by danger, it deals in a startling way with the Dostoevskian theme of murder as an act of total liberation, and as a pact demanding an answering sacrifice.
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