Our Lady of the Flowers ( Notre Dame des Fleurs ) is the novel of French writer Jean Genet's debut, first published in 1943. The free-flowing novel and poetic is largely an autobiographical account of a man's journey through the underworld of Paris. The characters are taken after their real-world counterparts, mostly homosexuals living on the margins of society.
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This novel tells the story of the Divine, a transvestite who, when the novel was opened, has died of tuberculosis and has been canonized as a result. The narrator tells us that the stories he tells primarily to amuse himself while he is serving his sentence in prison - and sex stories are so erotic, often sexually explicit, spin to help masturbate. Jean-Paul Sartre called it "epic masturbation".
Divine living in an attic room overlooking the Montmartre cemetery, which he shares with lovers, the most important of which is a pimp named Darling Daintyfoot. One day, Darling took home a young thug and killer, dubbed Our Lady of the Flowers. Our Mother was finally arrested and tried, and executed. Death and ecstasy accompany the actions of every character, such as Genet transvalues ​​all values, makes the highest moral betrayal, kills the act of virtue and sexual attraction.
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History and acceptance of the publication
Our Lady of the Flowers is written in prison. Genet wrote it on a piece of brown paper that the prison authorities gave to prisoners - with the intention that they would make the bags. As Jean-Paul Sartre tells us in the introduction to Our Lady of the Flowers, a prison guard discovers that Genetic prisoners have made this "illegitimate" use of paper, confiscating the manuscript and burning it. Undaunted, Genet wrote it again. The second version survived and Genet took it with him when he left prison.
Most completed in 1942, the book was first published anonymously by Robert DenoÃÆ'¨ l and Paul Morihien at the end of 1943, although only about 30 copies of the first edition were bound that year (most of which began to be bound and sold in August 1944). , during the Exemption). The first prints are designed to be sold to erotic collectors; circulated by private and under-the-table sales list. But Genet never meant his work as mere pornography and then cut more graphic pieces. In November 1943, he sent a copy of the first print to Marc Barbezat, the publisher of the literary journal L'Arbalete, who published the book in 1944 and again in 1948. Genet revised the novel when it was published by Gallimard in the year 1951; Gallimard editions eliminate some of the more porny parts in the novel. The next edition of L'Arbalete includes a number of smaller revisions.
This novel is dedicated to convicted murderers and executed Maurice Pilorge.
Literary influences
This novel is very influential on the Beats, with a flowing, very poetic language mixed with argot/slang, and the celebration of lowlifes and explicit description of homosexuality. Its nature is transgressive, and its own reflexive nature describes the approach to language developed later by post-structuralists. Jacques Derrida writes of Genet in his book Glas , and HÃÆ' Â © lÃÆ'¨ne Cixous celebrates his work as an example of ÃÆ' Â © criture feminine . Jean-Paul Sartre wrote his famous Saint Genet as an analysis of Genet's work and life, but especially of Our Lady of the Flowers. Our Lady of the Flowers makes Genet, in Sartre's mind at least, a poster child of existentialism and especially the embodiment of a philosophical view of freedom.
Adaptations
Lindsay Kemp produces Flowers. A pantomime for Jean Genet (based on Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet) in 1974 at the Bush Theater in London; he then toured the United States and Australia.
In popular culture
In Nigel Williams' Scenes from a Poisoner's Life (1994), the main protagonist gave Our Lady of the Flowers to his homosexual brother as a Christmas present.
Cast, actor and queen drag Divine are named after the main characters of this book. This is John Waters who gave him this nickname after he had just read Jean Genet's book.
Pogues has a song called "Hell's Ditch," which contains references to the novel.
Album debut self-titled Placebo menampilkan lagu berjudul "Lady Of The Flowers."
The song Cocorosie "Beautiful Boyz" is believed about it.
Sopet Aeternus & amp; Ensemble of Shadows' album Les Fleurs du Mal - Die Blument des BÃÆ'¶sen is deeply inspired by this book.
Pete Doherty uses a quote from a book in his song, "Last Of The English Roses."
Primal Scream has a song called "Dolls (Sweet Rock 'n' Roll)" in which the name of the novel is mentioned.
David Bowie is under the influence of this novel and calls it in his song 'The Jean Genie'.
References
- Our Lady of the Flowers (Barnard Frechtman, tr.); Grove Press (1963) ISBNÃ, 0-8021-3013-5
- Michael Lucey, "Genre Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs: Sexual Fantasy and Identity", Yale French Studies , No. 91, Genet: In Enemy Language (1997)
- Mathieu Lindon, "Genet regenere," Liberation (Paris), 30 September 1993
See also
- Le Monde '100 Book of the Century
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