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Our Lady of the Flowers ( Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs) is the debut novel of French writer Jean Genet, first published in 1943. The free-flowing, poetic novel is a largely autobiographical account of a man's journey through the Parisian underworld. The characters are drawn after their real-life counterparts, who are mostly homosexuals living on the ...
- Jean Genet
- 1943
4.01. 6,405 ratings415 reviews. Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictional work. The first draft was written while Genet was incarcerated in a French prison; when the manuscript was discovered and destroyed by officials, Genet, still a prisoner, immediately set about writing it again.
A wildly imaginative fantasy of the Parisian underworld, the novel tells the story of Divine, a male prostitute who consorts with thieves, pimps, murderers, and other criminals and who has many sexual adventures. Written in lyrical, dreamlike prose, the novel moves back and forth in time, opening with Divine’s funeral.
3 de ago. de 2023 · A literary analysis of Genet's novel that explores the themes of homosexuality, thievery, and murder through the characters of Divine, Daintyfoot, and Our Lady. The novel blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy, morality and immorality, and life and death in a style that reflects Genet's cult of the criminal.
16 de nov. de 2022 · Our Lady of the Flowers. by. Genet, Jean, 1910-1986. Publication date. 1965. Publisher. New York: Modern Library. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; bannedbooks.
13 de jul. de 2019 · A novel by Jean Genet, published in 1963 by Grove Press, about a transgender prostitute in Paris. The book is part of the banned books collection and can be accessed online or downloaded from the Internet Archive.
Our Lady of the Flowers. Jean Genet. Grove Press, 1991 - Fiction - 307 pages. Jean Genet's masterpiece, composed entirely in the solitude of his prison cell. With an introduction by...
