Our Lady of the Flowers
Author: Jean Genet
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 t….Read More
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