Querelle (novel)

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Querelle ( French dispute) is a novel by Jean Genet , which was published in 1947 under the French original title Querelle de Brest .

content

The windy sailor Querelle is an apocalyptic figure who falls for everyone she meets. In the web of sexuality, longings and human fantasies, Querelle does not gain any tangible hold. As Georges Querelle, the protagonist arrives in Brest with his ship Vengeur and visits the brothel Feria , which is run by Lysiane, the lover of Querelle's brother Robert. Querelle murders Vic, an accomplice in his drug smuggling . Through Roger, he met his lover Gil, who murdered his work colleague Theo and is now on the run from the police. Querelle and Gil fall in love; however, Querelle blames his murder on Vic Gil and turns him over to the police.

It is worth mentioning Querelle's relationship with Lysiane's husband Nono (Norbert), who is a pub owner at the Feria. Querelle also has a relationship with Mario, a police officer, and towards the end with Lieutenant Seblon, whom he serves as a boy on the ship.

reception

Querelle was included in the ZEIT library of 100 books .

Adaptations

The novel was made into a film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in 1982 under the title Querelle .

expenditure

  • First published by: L'Arbalète, Décines (Lyon), 1947. Then in Œuvres complètes , Volume III, Gallimard, Paris, 1953.
  • First in Germany: Rowohlt, Hamburg 1955. (Translator: Rolf Italiaander ). In Germany, the novel had a circulation of over 100,000 copies.

review

Rowohlt Verlag writes, among other things, about the book and the author: “Jean Genet expresses the most intimate and the most public, the transformations of cruelty into delight and delight into cruelty, the rites of murderers, victims and executioners, which are identical to one another. "

literature

  • Ina Hartwig : Poetics of Struggle. Male homosexuality in Jean Genet's Pompes funebres and Querelle de Brest. In: Ina Hartwig: Sexual Poetics. Proust, Musil, Genet, Jelinek. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-596-13959-7 , pp. 169-227.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Querelle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  2. ↑ Interview with Fassbinder (1982). (PDF; 85 kB) In the depths of society. In: Protestant film observer. Retrieved May 9, 2019 (June 9, 1982 interview).
  3. ↑ Querelle. Rowohlt Verlag, accessed on June 9, 2018 .