Title | : | Our Lady of the Flowers |
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Author | : | Jean Genet |
Release | : | 1994-01-12 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Classics, Books, Fiction & Literature, Erotica, Literary Fiction |
Size | : | 1408672 |
The 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. |