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.
                             
                                                                
                                                                    
                                
                                
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