01297nam a2200169Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200200007610000170009624500780011325000200019126000350021152008110024665000120105765000210106970000370109020261005141908.0260603s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a9780586020395  223a843.912 GEN  aGenet, Jean  0aOur Lady of The Flowersc/ Jean Genet ; Translated by Bernard Frechtman    aReprint Edition  aLondonb: Panther Booksc,1966  aJean 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. Combining memories with facts, fantasies, speculations, irrational dreams, tender emotion, empathy, and philosophical insights, Genet probably made his isolation bearable by retreating into a world not only of his own making, but one which he had total control over.  aFiction  a LGBT Literature  a Bernard Frechtman  (Translator)