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X-WR-CALDESC:Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet (272 pages)\n\nJean Gene
 t's first\, and arguably greatest\, novel was written while he was in pris
 on. As Sartre recounts in his\nintroduction\, Genet penned this work on th
 e brown paper which inmates were supposed to use to fold bags as a\nform o
 f occupational therapy. The masterpiece he managed to produce under those 
 difficult conditions is a lyrical\nportrait of the criminal underground of
  Paris and the thieves\, murderers and pimps who occupied it. Genet\nappro
 ached this world through his protagonist\, Divine\, a male transvestite pr
 ostitute. In the world of Our Lady of the\nFlowers\, moral conventions are
  turned on their head. Sinners are portrayed as saints and when evil is no
 t\ncelebrated outright\, it is at least viewed with a benign indifference.
  Whether one finds Genet's work shocking or\nthrilling\, the novel remains
  almost as revolutionary today as when it was first published in 1943 in a
  limited edition\,\nthanks to the help of one its earliest admirers\, Jean
  Cocteau.
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DESCRIPTION:Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet (272 pages)\n\nJean Genet
 's first\, and arguably greatest\, novel was written while he was in priso
 n. As Sartre recounts in his\nintroduction\, Genet penned this work on the
  brown paper which inmates were supposed to use to fold bags as a\nform of
  occupational therapy. The masterpiece he managed to produce under those d
 ifficult conditions is a lyrical\nportrait of the criminal underground of 
 Paris and the thieves\, murderers and pimps who occupied it. Genet\napproa
 ched this world through his protagonist\, Divine\, a male transvestite pro
 stitute. In the world of Our Lady of the\nFlowers\, moral conventions are 
 turned on their head. Sinners are portrayed as saints and when evil is not
 \ncelebrated outright\, it is at least viewed with a benign indifference. 
 Whether one finds Genet's work shocking or\nthrilling\, the novel remains 
 almost as revolutionary today as when it was first published in 1943 in a 
 limited edition\,\nthanks to the help of one its earliest admirers\, Jean 
 Cocteau.
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SUMMARY:IFL Classics Book Club: Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
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