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An edition of Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs (1948)

Our Lady of the Flowers.

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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 fringes of society.

The novel tells the story of Divine, a drag queen who, when the novel opens, has died of tuberculosis and been canonised as a result. The narrator tells us that the stories he is telling are mainly to amuse himself whilst he passes his sentence in prison – and the highly erotic, often explicitly sexual, stories are spun to assist his masturbation. Jean-Paul Sartre called it "the epic of masturbation".

Divine lives in an attic room overlooking Montmartre cemetery, which she shares with various lovers, the most important of whom is a pimp called Darling Daintyfoot. One day Darling brings home a young hoodlum and murderer, dubbed Our Lady of the Flowers. Our Lady is eventually arrested and tried, and executed. Death and ecstasy accompany the acts of every character, as Genet performs a transvaluation of all values, making betrayal the highest moral value, murder an act of virtue and sexual appeal.

Publish Date
Publisher
Grove Press
Language
English
Pages
318

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Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers
2019, Faber & Faber, Limited
in English
Cover of: Our lady of the flowers
Our lady of the flowers
2009, Faber and Faber
in English
Cover of: Our Lady of Flowers
Our Lady of Flowers
2004, Olympia Press
in English
Cover of: Notre-dame des fleurs
Notre-dame des fleurs
January 1, 1998, Gallimard
Paperback in French
Cover of: Notre-Dame des-Fleurs
Notre-Dame des-Fleurs
1996, Saggiatore
Paperback
Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers
January 12, 1994, Grove Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers
1994, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers
1991, Grove Press
in English
Cover of: Our lady of the flowers
Our lady of the flowers
1990, Faber
in English
Cover of: Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs
Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs
1990, Gallimard
in French
Cover of: Our lady of the flowers
Our lady of the flowers
1988, Paladin
in English
Cover of: Our Lady Of The Flowers
Our Lady Of The Flowers
January 1, 1987, Grove Press
Paperback in English - 1st Evergreen edition
Cover of: Notre­Dame­des­Fleurs
Notre­Dame­des­Fleurs
October 1, 1976, French & European Pubns
Paperback
Cover of: Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs.
Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs.
1976, Marc Barbezat-L'Arbalète
in French
Cover of: Our Lady of Flowers
Our Lady of Flowers
March 1976, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Notre Dame des Fleurs
Notre Dame des Fleurs
October 1, 1976, French & European Pubns
Paperback
Cover of: Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs
Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs
1976, [Gallimard]
in French
Cover of: Our Lady of Flowers
Our Lady of Flowers
March 1976, Grove Press
in English
Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers
1973, Faber and Faber
in English
Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers
1973, Faber & Faber
Hardcover
Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers
1968, Bantam Books
in English
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Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers
1968, Collectors Publications
in English
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Our Lady of the Flowers
1968, Bantam Books
in English
Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers
Cover of: Our Lady of the flowers
Our Lady of the flowers
1966, Panther
in English
Cover of: Notre-Dame des-Fleurs.
Notre-Dame des-Fleurs.
1966, Barbezat
in French
Cover of: Our lady of the flowers.
Our lady of the flowers.
1965, Modern Library
in English
Cover of: Our lady of the flowers
Our lady of the flowers
1964, Blond
in English
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Our lady of the flowers
1964, Anthony Blond
in English
Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers
1964, Anthony Blond
in English
Cover of: Our lady of the flowers
Our lady of the flowers
1964, Anthony Bond
in English
Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers.
Our Lady of the Flowers.
1964, Bantam Books
in English
Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers
1963, Grove P.
in English
Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers
1963, Grove Press
in English
Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers
1963, Grove Press
in English
Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers
Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers.
Our Lady of the Flowers.
1963, Grove Press
in English
Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers
1963, Castle Books, Distributed by Book Sales
in English
Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers.
Cover of: Notre-Dame des fleurs
Notre-Dame des fleurs
1948, L'Arbalète
in French
Cover of: Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs
Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs
1948, Barbezat, l'Arbalète
in French
Cover of: Notre-Dame des fleurs
Notre-Dame des fleurs
1948, L'Arbalète
in French
Cover of: Notre-Dame des fleurs
Notre-Dame des fleurs
1948, L'Arbalète
in French
Cover of: Notre-Dame-Des-Fleurs
Notre-Dame-Des-Fleurs
1948, Barbezat
in English
Cover of: Notre-Dame des fleurs
Notre-Dame des fleurs
1948, L'Arbalète
in French
Cover of: Notre-Dame-des-fleurs.
Notre-Dame-des-fleurs.
1948, Marc Barbezat L'Arbalète
in French
Cover of: Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs
Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs
1948, Marc Barbezat-L'Arbalète
in English
Cover of: Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers
Publisher unknown
Cover of: Notre-Dame des fleurs.
Notre-Dame des fleurs.
Publisher unknown
Cover of: Notre Dame Des Fleurs
Notre Dame Des Fleurs
Publish date unknown, Folio
Mass Market Paperback in French

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Edition Notes

Published in
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Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.G2866 Ou3

The Physical Object

Pagination
318 p.
Number of pages
318

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5820622M
Internet Archive
ourladyofflowers0000gene
LCCN
61006715
OCLC/WorldCat
342010
Library Thing
21491

First Sentence

"Our Lady of the Flowers, which is often considered to be Genet's masterpiece, was written entirely in the solitude of a prison cell."

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