Source: Our Lady of the Flowers
Quotes from book
Our Lady of the Flowers
Jean Genet
Original title
Notre Dame des Fleurs
(French, 1943)
Our Lady of the Flowers 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.
“Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.”
Source: Our Lady of the Flowers
