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. This book is an ode to onanistic activities or in other words masturbation. To be more specific this is a collection of fantasies that Genet wrote while in prison to help him achieve a chain of orgasms. Yes there are explicitly written parts, but do not categorize this book as pornography or a book of cheap thrills. Genet writes such lush, evocative scenes that the sex that may or may not occur is immaterial. Really this is about passion. This is about Genet making love to himself. The characters that flow through this novel from Divine, to Darling, to Our Lady of the Flowers, to Mimosa are all just derivatives of himself. He uses shells of ultra masculine males, gypsies, thieves, and beautiful young boys, that he has cut out of magazines, to fulfill his sexual fantasies, but underneath in the hollow parts of their bodies they are Jean Genet. May Day Speech, speech at New Haven, 1 mai 1970. San Francisco: City Light Books. Excerpts published as "J'Accuse" in Jeune Afrique, November 1970, and Les Nègres au port de la lune, Paris: Editions de la Différence, 1988. Jean Genet, interview accordée au magazine Playboy citée dans Le Magazine Littéraire, n° 174, Juin 1981, p. 20. La fantasia però è mescolata al ricordo e così si confondono i contorni di ciò che è accaduto realmente e ciò che è finzione.

Ouverture-éclair sur l´Amérique", in Europe-Revue littéraire Mensuelle, Numéro spécial Jean Genet, n° 808–809 (1996). Claude Bonnefoy, Jean Genet, Paris, Éditions Universitaires, coll. « Classiques du xx e siècle », 1965, p. 7. El intérprete, actor, y drag queen Divine recibió este nombre por la principal protagonista del libro. El director John Waters le dio este apodo después de leer la novela de Genet. Pour le personnage de Divine, qui oscille entre masculin et féminin, il s’agit donc aussi d’alterner entre plusieurs manières de parler, de pronoms et d’accords d’adjectifs. Chez Genet, le masculin l’emporte sur le féminin. Les accords dépendent de la personnalité de la personne qui parle et qui semblent pouvoir choisir dans la langue la forme qui lui convient le mieux pour exprimer son intériorité. Mi sono trovata, invece, spesso a brancolare tra le righe, in cerca di un appiglio che mi guidasse.Between 1955 and 1961, Genet wrote three more plays as well as an essay called "What Remains of a Rembrandt Torn into Four Equal Pieces and Flushed Down the Toilet", on which hinged Jacques Derrida's analysis of Genet in his seminal work Glas. During this time, Genet became emotionally attached to Abdallah Bentaga, a tightrope walker. However, following a number of accidents and Bentaga's suicide in 1964, Genet entered a period of depression, and even attempted suicide himself. [2] Sartre Forward to the 1951 Gallimard edition, here quoted from the 1964 Bantam English translation. Jean Genet, Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs. Romanzo, traduzione di Dario Gibelli (traduzione riveduta e aggiornata), Collana La Cultura, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2015, ISBN 88-428-2074-1. That has just got to be one of the most poetically rendered snapshots, ever, of love at first sight. Romanzo impudico e lirico la cui voce narrante è quella di un carcerato che trova sollievo nell’immaginazione.

Pubblicato nel 1942 in forma anonima e clandestina, ”Notre-Dame des.- Fleurs” è’ la celebrazione di un’epica omosessuale nella Parigi della fine degli anni ’30. Spitzer, Mark, trans. 2010. The Genet Translations: Poetry and Posthumous Plays. Polemic Press. See www.sptzr.net/genet_translations.htm. Dans une langue unique qui mélange allègrement argot et poésie, Genêt décrit ses amours homosexuelles. Meeting the Guaraní" ("Faites connaissance avec les Guaranis"), in Le Démocrate véronais, 2 juin 1972. When she talks to herself about Darling, Divine says, clasping her hands in thought: I worship him. When I see him lying naked, I feel like saying mass on his chest." We all hope that we can experience a moment where someone feels this way about us. For Jean Genet these characters sprang from his imagination fully formed as the perfect, flawed lovers that his mind could move about like furniture building up fantasies that ultimately leads to his satisfaction.For this and other misdemeanors, including repeated acts of vagrancy, he was sent at the age of 15 to Mettray Penal Colony where he was detained between 2 September 1926 and 1 March 1929. In Miracle of the Rose (1946), he gives an account of this period of detention, which ended at the age of 18 when he joined the Foreign Legion. He was eventually given a dishonorable discharge on grounds of indecency (having been caught engaged in a homosexual act) and spent a period as a vagabond, petty thief and prostitute across Europe—experiences he recounts in The Thief's Journal (1949). pecte. De l'église au cimetière, le chemin était long et le texte du bréviaire trop connu. Seuls, le chant des morts. et la chape noire brodée d'argent suaient des charmes. L'abbé chemina dans la boue comme il l'eût fait au fond d'un bois. De quel bois? s'interrogea-t-il. Dans un pays étranger une forêt de Bohême. Ou plutôt de Hongrie. Sans 33 Dans un pénitencier de la France sous l’occupation allemande, le détenu Jean Genet accroche au mur de sa cellule des photos de criminels découpées dans le journal. La nuit, il leur imagine une vie différente. C’est ainsi que prennent forme Divine, travestie* et prostituée, Mignon, son proxénète et amant, et Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs, assassin adolescent.

Planches de Chantal Montellier pour Divine (d’après Notre-Dame des Fleurs de Jean Genet) publiées dans la revue Ah ! Nana. Homosexualité. Changez de sexe ! Transsexualité. n°8, juin 1978.)The members of the Assembly" ("Les membres de l'Assemblée nationale"), in Esquire, n° 70, November 1968.