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Querelle

Name: Querelle
Author: Jean Genet
ISBN: 9780802151575

by Jean Genet, Anselm Hollo

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Overview

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 peril, Querelle deals in a startling way with the Dostoyevskian theme of murder as an act of total liberation.