Querelle of Brest is a novel by the French writer
Jean Genet. It was first published anonymously in 1947 and limited to 460 numbered copies. It is set in the midst of the port town of
Brest, where sailors and the sea are associated with murder, and its protagonist is
Georges Querelle. The novel formed the basis for
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's last film,
Querelle (1982).