A review by casparb
Our Lady Of The Flowers by Jean Genet

Almost certainly the finest piece of gay erotica I've read this year this is an incredible incredible piece of literature and I'm glad it arrived today. Genet is brilliant, a natural - the first half of this novel is honestly some of the best prose writing I've found. I was comparing this to Miller as I was going along (something of the Parisian and the sordid I expect) and as I said of Miller - there is brilliance, perhaps even prose genius, but it comes in flashes. With Genet it doesn't flash so much as hum throughout the entire piece and yet seems entirely natural. He resists the temptation of prosaic flamboyance and instead gives us unrepentant filth, delicious.

I'll get to more JG. Our Lady exceeded the expectations which even then were high