Genet wrote it in prison, on pieces of brown paper used by the prisoners to make bags. Our Lady of the Flowers is considered his masterpiece.
He was certainly a pessimist, and one who would have had little sympathy with the feelgood, flag-waving gay politics of today. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet (1943)įor many gay men, Genet represents a self-loathing homosexuality that went out of fashion with the birth of gay liberation.
