Jean (Introduction By Jean-Paul Satre) Genet Bernard Frechtman
Overview
Our Lady of the Flowers, often considered Genet's masterpiece, was written in the cell of a French prison where he was being held for theft. Here is the darker side of Montmartre, a world of pimps, thieves, prostitutes, queens and blackmailers, where 'morality' in the common sense of the word has no meaning. The story of Divine, a drag-queen prostitute, is interwoven with that of one of his lovers, a young man due to be arrested for murder. A story of sex, crime and death, Our Lady of the Flowers is a powerful and original debut novel, which put Genet into the front rank of French writers.
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Jean Genet, (born Dec. 19, 1910, Paris, France—died April 15, 1986, Paris), French criminal-and-social-outcast-turned writer who, as a novelist, transformed erotic and often obscene subject matter into a poetic vision of the universe and, as a dramatist, became a leading figure in the avant-garde theatre, especially the Theatre of the Absurd.
Other editions (9)
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鲜花圣母 浙江文艺出版社 2006 -
鲜花圣母 浙江文艺出版社 2006 -
Our Lady of the Flowers Lightning Source Inc 2004 -
繁花聖母 時報出版 1996 -
Our Lady of the Flowers Grove Press 1994 -
Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs 加利瑪出版社 1976 -
Notre Dame des Fleurs French & European Pubns 1976 -
Notre Dame Des Fleurs Folio 1976 -
Our Lady of the Flowers Open Road + Grove/Atlantic 1994