Our Lady of the Flowers
Author: Jean Genet
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 1994-01-12
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0802194249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe shattering novel of underground life the New York Times called “a cry of rapture and horror . . . the purest lyrical genius.” Jean Genet’s debut novel Our Lady of the Flowers, which is often considered to be his masterpiece, was written entirely in the solitude of a prison cell. A semi- autobiographical account of one man’s journey through the Paris demi-monde, dubbed “the epic of masturbation” by no less a figure than Jean-Paul Sartre, the novel’s exceptional value lies in its exquisite ambiguity.