Our Lady of the Flowers Paperback | Pages: 216 pages

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Original Title:	Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs
ISBN:	1596541369 (ISBN13: 9781596541368)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Louis Culafroy, Adrien Baillon
Literary Awards:	Mikael Agricola -palkinto (1989)

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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. It isn't difficult to understand how and why Genet was able to reproduce the novel under such circumstances, because Our Lady Of The Flowers is nothing less than a mythic recreation of Genet's past and then - present history. Combining memories with facts, fantasies, speculations, irrational dreams, tender emotion, empathy, and philosophical insights, Genet probably made his isolation bearable by retreating into a world not only of his own making, but one which he had total control over.

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Title	:	Our Lady of the Flowers
Author	:	Jean Genet
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 216 pages
Published	:	December 1st 2004 by Olympiapress.com (first published 1943)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. France. LGBT. Classics. GLBT. Queer

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Thank you Paula!

Genet is a genious in his sensual descriptions of ruthless men. His attraction to crime and death equals his love for masculine beauty and sex. He wrote this book in jail, and in more than one way, this book released him. The first time i read it I was about twenty and it actually shook my (literary) world. He was so different from anything I'd read before (and i'd real lots of books before) that I compulsively read and reread it.

great optimistic work. start with a nightmare. from death into life which is into the art of writing.

This free-flowing, poetic novel is a largely autobiographical account of a man's journey through the Parisian underworld. Genet drew the characters after their real-life counterparts, who are mostly homosexuals living on the fringes of society as was Genet himself. Written while he was in prison, it was largely completed in 1942. The book was first published anonymously by Robert Denoël and Paul Morihien at the end of 1943, though only about 30 copies of the first edition were bound in that year

Hold on, this shit is kinda gay.*I was 17 when I first read Our Lady, and I would never be the same again. My mind & teenage limbic system simply did not know how to process passages like the following. I thought I literally might explode.'I know very well that if I were sick, and were cured by a miracle, I would not survive it.''July Fourteenth: red, white, and blue everywhere. Divine dresses up in all the other colors, out of consideration for them, because they are disdained.''When Mimosa

I feel silly giving this stars ... it's less a work of art and more the darker parts of a man's living brain. As Sartre says in the intro: "This work of the mind is an organic product. It smells of bowels and sperm and milk."I liked this description of the pimp: "all and always hot muscle and bush".

Paris, France during the 40's. Louis Culafroy, a gay boy has come out and named himself Divine. This is his story: his life as a son, male prostitute, thief, swindler, blackmailer and lover. His one true love is a pimp and a beautiful virile man called Darling Daintyfoot. Description of Darling: height, 5 ft. 9 in., weight 165 lbs., oval face, blond hair, blue-green eyes, mat complexion, perfect teeth, straight nose. Divine loves him so much that she worships Darling's cock that she has made a