A review by ralowe
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet

5.0

i'd want to say that it was hard for me to finish reading this because i couldn't stop masturbating but honestly i was masturbating because of something else. which is not to say that this book was a contributing factor. i think the spate of masturbation which coincided with the reading was because i was having anxiety about my neighbor screaming, which did make it very hard to read the book and really enjoy it. so you see i share something in common with genet"Уdisclosing too much information. i can see the roots of what we would one day call anti-relationalism in the description of farts, the joy of watching babies fall off balconies and ratting out your friends. i'm not saying that there's nothing here for other people to masturbate to. i really want to say that the beautiful masturbatory imagery just took me to this place, but maybe if i read it a bunch of years ago. this is the first piece of fiction i've read for a while. the last thing i read shares some similarities with genet"У120 days of sodom"Уboth french, incarcerated, perverted and canonical. please don't get the wrong idea about me. i want to find out what angela davis thinks about genet's writing.