Our Lady of the Flowers FROM THE PUBLISHER
'Our Lady of the Flowers', which is often considered to be Genet's masterpiece, was written entirely in the solitude of a prison cell. the exceptional value of the work lies in its ambiguity.
FROM THE CRITICS
NY Times Book Review
Elegiac elegance, alternately muted, languorous, vituperative, tender, glamorous, bitchy, lush, mockingly feminine, "high camp," overripe, vigorous, rigorous, exalted....A remarkable, sensitive achievement.
Boston Herald
Incredible, appalling, thrilling, disturbing, offbeat, eloquent, violently crude, yet compelling. Reflects, as no other book of our time, the lower depths of human existence.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Genet has taken a tabooed subject and created a world that is out of this world. He is a magician, an enchanter of the first order. — Richard Wright
A matchless contemporary classic....Like Ulysses in its own day, so creatively formidable that any comment on its merit becomes at once presumptuous. — Terry Southern
Only a handful of twentieth-century writers, such as Kafka and Proust, have as important, as authoritative, as irrevocable a voice and style. — Susan Sontag
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