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The type is exceedingly small in the edition I received -- I don't wear reading glasses, and I am using a magnifying glass. You might want to try another edition, although Streatham's translation is fine.The content is explicit, but Genet was an important influence, and it is very well written. No great book is for everyone.
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Querelle of Brest Jean Genet 9780571256211 Books Reviews
There is deep penetration in this book. 'Bareback' doesn't even begin to mimic the raw realism of Genet's exploration of explosive intimate encounters between virtual archetypes of masculinity (and centrally, one female as well – the 'Madam'). These encounters, however, are simply perfunctory part of the ontological stream of Genet's profound meanderings in the doings, motives and psychological stirrings of the protagonist as well as those of several other characters with whom we are becoming intimately familiar.
As my first acquaintance with Jean Genet's art, my anticipations were in no way let down. Yes, 'tour de force' it is. Here is a sublime creative power which could readily discuss acute observations on the nature of genius, if that had been within the ontic realm of the story. But that's not present in this novel, not as such. Still, we are convinced that the true nature of such a phenomenon is sure to be found on the same profound level of psychological being at which the intertwined stories in this book unfold.
Gregory Streatham is the translator, and as a non-native English speaker, I had a tough time keeping up with the opulent pervasiveness of rare English vocabulary. Without my several dictionaries, including a slang dictionary, I would not have stood a chance getting through this novel. To elaborate, I'm a fifty year old Norwegian man, I've lived for two years in the United States, and I have expressed myself in English extensively. Still, had it not been for the sheer power of this literary oevre with its absolutely unfettered eroticism combining as a glue for the narrative, I would hardly have stayed with this book. In fact, I wonder if the original French is equally abstruse in this respect, or maybe the translator in this manner has added a layer of inaccessibility to prevent the book being read as pornography by less mature readers.
This novel will reveal to almost anyone poignant facets of the masculine being in one of his most explosive and almost archetypal expressions, which will, if apprehended, be novel and elucidating, even to the extent of conveying an expanded understanding of one's very own human being, right down to their soul.
What can one say of Genet? He was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, without a doubt, and possibly the greatest writer working in the French language since Gide to address issues of male sexuality in an unconventional, discursive, manner. However, a lot of his fiction to me is rather depressing--droll even in places--and this book was no different, though it did offer more realism and tangible detail than some of his other works. The port city of Brest is one of the more-gritty cities of France, a place always associated mainly with two things military might (as a naval base) and crime. Genet well understands this and paints the city as the central character of the novel. With the city taking the lead, everyone else brings up the proverbial rear sailors, naval officers, madames, et cetera. Petty crime and crime grand, it's all here. I'd certainly recommend this book to anyone interested in Genet or 20th century French literature, but I will admit it left me wanting in places. To write a literary whodunit or fiction that desires for nothing more than to be true crime, I would look to Hawksmoor, the 1985 novel by the British writer Peter Ackroyd. While we may not want Genet to be P.D. James, at times the crime aspects could have been played for more interest than they were. Or, perhaps it's just my own personal taste I will say it's a powerful work and lacks none of all that makes Genet great, I just couldn't get into it as I've always desired to get into Genet's work.
If you can read French, do read it in the French. Also, I expect if I read it over again, it will grow on me. There's a lot that's wonderful about this book but it's also trucated to me in places, and almost seems rushed sometimes. Still, it's Genet and could be no other.
The type is exceedingly small in the edition I received -- I don't wear reading glasses, and I am using a magnifying glass. You might want to try another edition, although Streatham's translation is fine.
The content is explicit, but Genet was an important influence, and it is very well written. No great book is for everyone.
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