Jean Genet: Our Lady of the Flowers

Cover: 9780802130136 | Our Lady of the Flowers | Jean Genet | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 1994

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Beschreibung

Jean Genet's first, and arguably greatest, novel was written while he was in prison. As Sartre recounts in his introduction, Genet penned this work on the brown paper which inmates were supposed to use to fold bags as a form of occupational therapy. The masterpiece he managed to produce under those difficult conditions is a lyrical portrait of the criminal underground of Paris and the thieves, murderers and pimps who occupied it. Genet approached this world through his protagonist, Divine, a male transvestite prostitute. In the world of Our Lady of the Flowers, moral conventions are turned on their head. Sinners are portrayed as saints and when evil is not celebrated outright, it is at least viewed with a benign indifference. Whether one finds Genet's work shocking or thrilling, the novel remains almost as revolutionary today as when it was first published in 1943 in a limited edition, thanks to the help of one its earliest admirers, Jean Cocteau.

Über den Autor

Sartre was born in Paris, France. He had a doctorate in philosophy.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1994
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780802130136
ISBN-10:	0802130135
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Genet, Jean
Übersetzung:	Frechtman, Bernard
Hersteller:	Grove Atlantic, Inc.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 146 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Jean Genet
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.01.1994
Gewicht:	0,367 kg