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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. The characters are drawn after their real-life counterparts, who are mostly homosexuals living on the ...
- Jean Genet
- 1943
He wrote poetry, the autobiographical book 'The Thief's Journey', the novels: 'Our Lady of the Flowers' and 'Miracle of the Rose', 'Querelle of Brest', and 'Funeral Rites'. 'Deathwatch', 'The Maids', 'The Balcony', 'The Blacks', 'The Screens', and 'Splendid's' (the manuscript for which was only recovered in 1993) are the six plays he composed.
- Jean Genet
- 1949
Penguin Books, 1967 - Fiction - 223 pages. The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the...
The 5941st Greatest Book of All Time. 5. Prisoner Of Love. "Prisoner of Love" is a non-fiction book that blends memoir, history, and philosophical reflection. It chronicles the author's experiences in the late 1960s and early 1970s among Palestinian fedayeen (guerrilla fighters) and later, in the mid-1970s, with the Black Panthers in Jordan.
The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil.
Miracle of the Rose is the most autobiographical of Jean Genet's writings. It is also the most thoroughly erotic, though--since the competition is pretty stiff--not necessarily the most sexually outrageous.
The Thief's Journal (1949) The Maids (1947) The Balcony (1956) Signature. Jean Genet ( French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒənɛ]; 19 December 1910 – 15 April 1986) 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.
