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Genet's 1949 first novel, often considered his best, was written while he was serving a life sentence in prison--he was later pardoned after Jean-Paul Sartre and Cocteau made a public plea in his name. A mix of semi-autobiographical tales about homosexual outsiders (including the transvestite Divine) and masturbatory fantasies, OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS is an unrepentant ode to the pleasures of evil, the beauty of murderers, and the joys of sin., Gide's 1949 first novel, often considered his best, was written while he was in prison for a crime he did not commit, and for which he was later pardoned after Sartre and Cocteau made a public plea. It features Genet himself and some of his fellow prisoners, all with women's names, including the title character, a convicted murdered named Adrien Ballon, who was executed.
| Size | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 12.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"A matchless contemporary classic. Like Ulysses in its own day, so creatively formidable that any comment on its merit becomes at once presumptuous."
Terry Southern
"Genet has taken a taboo subject and created a world that is out of this world. He is a magician, an enchanter of the first order."
Richard Wright
"...one consents to this book---without consenting to the point of view represented in it.It is only the very greatest kind of book which can over-ride the moral question.Our Lady of the Flowers is such a book...it is no sense a wicked book or a pornographic one...I don't know whether to praise more the language...it's daring method of construction, or the endless fertility of it's ideas."
Book Week - Susan Sontag (10/06/1963)
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