Our Lady of the Flowers

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.

© 1994 Grove Press (E-bog): 9780802194244

Release date

E-bog: 12. januar 1994