Querelle of Roberval a homage to the works of Jean Genet
rings any bells, it should. It’s a direct homage to Jean Genet and his 1947 novel,– a work perhaps best known in the non-Francophone world for a 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder film adaptation starring Brad Davis.
In Roberval, though, Querelle has found his niche, a place where he can apply his rare combination of physical and interpersonal skills to seeming perfection. By day he is a valued co-worker and fearless comrade in the labour struggle. By night – and let’s be honest, at scattered moments in the daytime, too – he exploits his sexual prowess by satisfying the taboo urges of the town’s middle-class sons.
Querelle himself doesn’t dominate the novel to the degree that might be implied by the title; this is a cross-sectional portrait of a place, with multiple characters given their turn as the focus, all of them limned with equal care.
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