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<i>Funeral Rites</i> (novel)

Funeral Rites (novel)

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Funeral Rites (Pompes funèbres) is a 1948 novel by Jean Genet. It is a story of love and betrayal across political divides, written this time for the narrator's lover, Jean Decarnin, killed by the Germans in World War II.

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The first edition was limited to 1,500 copies; in 1953 the text was revised by Gallimard, excising some possibly offensive passages, which became the basis for the 1953 English translation by Frechtman.[1]

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    Plunka, Gene A. (1992). The rites of passage of Jean Genet: the art and aesthetics of risk taking. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 89. ISBN 0-8386-3461-3.
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