- Paperback: 318 pages
- Publisher: Faber Finds
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0571251153
- ISBN-13: 978-0571251155
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 381 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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Our Lady of the Flowers, which is often considered to be Genet's masterpiece, was written entirely in the solitude of a prison cell. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover
Our Lady of the Flowers, which is often considered to be Genet's masterpiece, was written entirely in the solitude of a prison cell. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
like a narcotic!,
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This review is from: Our Lady Of the Flowers (Paperback)
Somebody should make an opera of this book! I've loved this book since high school, perhaps more than all the others! Genet as always is like a dark narcotic; impossible to shake, and constantly ecstatic. His genius is like a kind of suffocating honey on the page, it pulls your heart out. This edition has a substantive Introduction by Sartre, whose "Saint Genet" is one of the seminal books of the late twentieth century. If you've never read Genet, you've got something coming! What is there to say about literature of this standing? Read it and be ennobled.
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Great art,
This review is from: Our Lady Of the Flowers (Paperback)
The perferct mix of avant-garde art which represents a philosophy. The framed narrative, its necessity that is, is the only aspect of the work I would question. A must read of the French writers.
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An unparalleled literary masterpiece,
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This review is from: Our Lady Of the Flowers (Paperback)
Although I first came across Genet reading "The Thief's Journal", I believe this to be his greatest work (if not the greatest work of modern fiction, better than "Ulysses"). His writing lyrically flows and gives the work an organic unity. No other work, except "Swann's Way" by Proust, has the creative control and beautiful images Genet infuses in his work. A recommended read for all people. A shimmeringly beautiful work of fiction which makes the underworld and the sexual outlaw sublime. (Also, I'd recommend "City of Night" by John Rechy.)
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