Our Lady of the Flowers
(1994)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[S.l.]: Grove Atlantic, 1994
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (320 p.)
ISBN/ISSN
9780802194244 ermc189
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Electronic book
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
General adult
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