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What purposes do all the binaries and juxtapositions in the text serve? For example the convict's garb and flowers, freedom in confinement....

Richard Average Genet answers that question when he says " my excitement is the oscillation from one to the other". Genet is a true homosexual, not merely the hedonis…moreGenet answers that question when he says " my excitement is the oscillation from one to the other". Genet is a true homosexual, not merely the hedonist, libertine or debauchee who pursues pleasure for its own sake. His quest, both erotic and philosophical, is to bring to light the opposites which exist sometimes like a coiled spring within. When he succeeds, whether through language or action, he is the wonder-struck witness reveling in awe and delight at the volcano I will call mortal man. In the beginning he says " I was hot for crime." Allowing a modicum of humor one might also say that 'he was hot for irony'. (less)

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