by Jean Genet · Merlin Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783875360332
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«Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs» is Jean Genet's first novel, published by Merlin Verlag in paperback (276 pages, in German).
Genet sets the action in the Parisian underworld and creates Divine, a character who moves among transvestites, criminals and outcasts. The author's lyrical and provocative language elevates misery to an almost mystical dimension, making the novel a landmark of transgressive literature.
Translation from the French by Gerhard Hock. First German edition in 1960; the trial in Hamburg ended in 1962 with the book's acquittal, which liberalized literary censorship in Germany.
Recommended for readers of twentieth-century French literature, queer narrative and works that marked the history of editorial censorship in Germany.
Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. His major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens.
