Notre Dame des Fleurs

Our Lady of the Flowers

Author

Jean Genet

Language

French

Year

1943

Country

France

Genre

Novel

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Our Lady of the Flowers (Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs) is the debut novel of French writer Jean Genet, first published in 1943. The free-flowing, poetic novel is a largely autobiographical account of a man's journey through the Parisian underworld. The characters are drawn after their real-life counterparts, who are mostly homosexuals living on the fringes of society.