![]() ![]() ![]() While fans of Genet’s original will likely be disappointed, Lambert has unleashed his own strange beast. The writing is strong, though the author threatens to sink the ship with an increasingly fragmented structure and an uneven tone, vacillating from graphic sex to quotidian tedium to political screeds. In Querelle, the last of Genets brilliant quasi-autobiographical fantasies, originally published in France in 1953, were offered a Handsome Sailor whose virility and beauty are ''enhanced'' through murders: one that he himself commits, another that he aids, a third that he arranges. The fuguelike narrative swells to include sections introducing a union buster known as the Hulk as well as the author himself, who, perhaps with a bit of sarcasm, claims to hold a “clear-cut position in support of the employers” as the story builds toward a violent showdown. In addition, three gay teens perform explicit sexual and criminal acts including necrophilia, featured in Dennis Cooperish sequences. There’s also a subplot involving her sister, Judith, who considers working as a double agent among the strikers. his presence takes on a mystical, bewitching quality.” He also “captivates and shocks” his coworkers, particularly Jézebel. Almost everyone desires him his body is “born to be nude. ![]() Querelle, 27, and his coworkers are on strike at the mill. Lambert ( You Will Love What You Have Killed) relocates the title character of Jean Genet’s Querelle of Brest to a sawmill in Roberval, Quebec, in this vibrant if unwieldy homage. ![]()
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