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  1. Jun 29, 2012 · April 23, 2020. Surreal and erotic, Genet’s semi-autobiographical debut novel unfolds in a series of loosely linked vignettes, sketching the lurid exploits of a small group of queer sex workers, pimps, and murderers, who alternately feud and fall in love with each other.

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      Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet,...

  2. Jean Genet has 147 books on Goodreads with 107130 ratings. Jean Genet’s most popular book is Our Lady of the Flowers.

  3. Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. His work, much of it considered scandalous when it first appeared, is now placed among the classics of modern literature and has been translated and performed ...

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    • April 15, 1986
    • December 19, 1910
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  5. Jan 12, 1994 · Our Lady of the Flowers. Paperback – January 12, 1994. Jean Genet's masterpiece, composed entirely in the solitude of his prison cell. With an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. Jean Genet's first, and arguably greatest, novel was written while he was in prison.

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  6. Our Lady of the Flowers (Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs) is the debut novel of French writer Jean Genet, first published in 1943. The free-flowing, poetic novel is a largely autobiographical account of a man's journey through the Parisian underworld.

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    • 1943
    • 1943
    • Marc Barbezat – L'Arbalete (Original French), Editions Paul Morbien (English Translation)
  7. Aug 3, 2023 · The novel Our Lady of the Flowers was written by Jean Genet (1910–86) in 1942 at Fresnes prison but not published until 1944. Genet in this novel addresses three major themes: homosexuality, thievery, and murder, with a focus on the transgressive function of stealing and sexuality’s spiritual vocation.

  8. Our Lady of the Flowers, novel by Jean Genet, published anonymously in a limited edition in 1943 as Notre-Dame-des-fleurs. The book was published under Genet’s name in 1944, and the definitive French edition was published in 1951. The author, who wrote the novel while he was in prison for burglary,

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