false 53003 16 Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictional work. The first draft was written while Genet was incarcerated in a French prison; when the manuscript was discovered and destroyed by officials, Genet, still a prisoner, immediately set about writing it again. It isn't difficult to understand how and why Genet was able to reproduce the novel under such circumstances, because Our Lady Of The Flowers is nothing less than a mythic recreation of Genet's past and then - present history. Combining memories with facts, fantasies, speculations, irrational dreams, tender emotion, empathy, and philosophical insights, Genet probably made his isolation bearable by retreating into a world not only of his own making, but one over which he had total control. 523004 1963 Our Lady Of The Flowers total:574|5:256|4:174|3:93|2:37|1:14| 574 2343 965 54 4 17 false false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jan 09 17:40:01 -0800 2008 Fri May 22 05:09:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 3 false false Sun Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 18:40:24 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 14:57:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Sun Nov 04 23:01:50 -0800 2007 Thu Feb 07 07:51:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 26 15:46:31 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 27 09:11:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Wed Aug 15 23:01:24 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 23:06:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jun 23 12:52:57 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 23 13:07:37 -0700 2007 The first time i read it I was about twenty and it actually shook my (l...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 18 18:07:57 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 18:11:54 -0700 2009
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violence and blue-eyed killers conflated with the sacred, flowers and churches.

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