Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet [FIRST U.S. PAPERBACK EDITION] 1964 • Bantam

Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet with introduction by Jean Paul Sartre

FIRST U.S. PAPERBACK EDITION [1964] BANTAM BOOKS

4th Bantam mass market paperback printing / 1964.

Vintage paperback in near mint condition.  

Clean, tight and unread copy with some very mild shelf wear to cover.

Reads like new with clean bright pages.

ABOUT THE BOOK

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 to reproduce the novel under such circumstances, because Our Lady Of The Flowers is nothing less than a mythic recreation of Genet's past and then - present history.

"Homosexual, criminal, perverse, rel-gious, sacrilegious, voluble, dynamic, schizophrenic, honest. Can a great novel justily all these adjectives at once? OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS does justify them and emerges as a work of genius. Like Henry Miller and Thomas Wolfe... among the great novels of the twentieth century." Chicago Sun-Times