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title: "Our Lady of the Flowers Paperback – 11 April 2015"
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# Our Lady of the Flowers Paperback – 11 April 2015

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## Customer Reviews

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    Gay life, gay prison. Sad lives, sad prison
  

*by H***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 August 2015*

This novel was written by Jean Genet in Sante prison around 1943, and was publish after a final revision in 1951. The book is forthright imagined and, I presume, factualisation of a series of Parisian gay lives of and for some of the inmates. Corsican Divine (Louis Culafroy) and Darling (Paul Garcia) are a couple but Mimosa is a rival. They end up fancying the attractive, young `Our Lady of the Flowers' (Adrien Baillon). The Lady has murdered an old man and is destined to be caught, we know early on that Divine dies of consumption. There a numerous side characters transvestites, bisexuals, rogues etc but include Divine's mum Ernestine; the Greek, Alberto etc. The story appears as a recursive retrospective on the main characters as youths to their adult in prison, tragic behaviour (the author uses `she' for the gay men a lot). The author writes a bit about his life in the cell but mostly on these characters, and indicates he masturbates a lot thinking of them. This is an exercise in auto-erotic gay fiction, but the mix of imagined `other lives', prison life, semi-realism, existentialism and quite literary style are add to the overall effect as a most intriguing novel.Some quotes:"She went to get the revolver, which had long since been loaded by a most considerate Providence, and when she held it in her hand, weighty as a phallus in action, she knew that she was big with murder, pregnant with a corpse"" He rams it in. So hard and calmly that his virility observed by the heavens, has the penetrating force of the battalions of blond warriors who on June 14th 1940 bu**ered us soberly and seriously, though their eyes were elsewhere as they march in the dust and sun""And the miracle occurred. There was no miracle. God had been debunked. God was hollow. Just a hole with any old thing around it. A pretty shape, like a plaster head of Marie-Antoinette and the little soldiers which were holes with a bit of thin lead around them""I finally realise that on Judgement Day it will be with my own voice that God will call me"A strangle novel a sort of mix between `Last Exit to Brooklyn' and `Kiss of the Spider woman' - 4 stars.

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    Five Stars
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 October 2017*

fantastic book, stunning

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    delighted
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 February 2014*

This was a Christmas present for our daughter. The book is beautifully bound and she is extremely pleased with it.

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