Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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Querelle of Brest by Jean Genet was originally published in 1947 in a limited edition of 460 copies illustrated by Jean Cocteau. I read an English translation by Gregory Streatham.

Other works mentioned:
Film adaptation - Querelle (1982) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet - Book Chat youtu.be/143MO5Rs-L0
The Quest for Hermes Trismegistus: From Ancient Egypt to the Modern World by Gary Lachman