- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), World War II, Gay men, Romance literature
Autobiographical novel set in Paris during German occupation.
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Grave, prestige, contemplative and character-led.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Jean Genet
- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, Blond, Faber & Faber
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780218514742
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“The newspapers that appeared at the time of the Liberation of Paris, in August 1944, give a fair idea what those days of childish heroism, when the body was steaming with bravura and boldness, were really like.”
French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist
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