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The text frames the work as a prison-written masterpiece marked by deep ambiguity: characters seem shaped by fatality while the author’s sovereign freedom turns pessimism into a paradoxical form of triumph. Sartre recounts the prison origins, manuscript burning, and Genet’s persistence, highlighting how human downfall is portrayed as election and rash optimism through the book’s distinctive language.","OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS  \nOTHER WORKS BY JEAN GENET Published by Grove Press  \nThe Balcony  \nThe Blacks Funeral Rites  \nTheMaids and Deathwatch Miracle of the Rose Querelle  \nThe Screens  \nThe Thief's Journal  \nOUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS  \nJean Genet  \nTranslated by  \nBERNARD FRECHTMAN Introduction by JEAN-PAUL SARTRE  \nGROVE PRESS New York  \nCopyright © 1963 by Grove Press, Inc.  \nCopyright © renewed 1991 by Grove Press, Inc.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, or the facilitation thereof, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in areview. Any members of educational institutions wishing to photocopy part or all ofthe work for classroom use, or publishers who would like to obtain permission to include the work in an anthology, should send their inquiries to Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 841 Broadway, New York, NY 10003.  \nOriginally published in a limited edition by L'Arbalète of Lyons, France, in 1943 under the title Notre-Dame des Fleurs. Revised version published under the same title by Librairie Gallimard.  \nThe Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre is from the author's Saint-Genet, comedien et martyr, copyright © 1952 by Librairie Gallimard, and is published by permission of Librairie Gallimard. The American edition of Saint Genet is published by George Braziller, Inc.  \nPublished simultaneously in Canada Printed in the United States of America  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nGenet, Jean, 1910– Our Lady of the Flowers.  \nTranslation of: Notre-Dame des Fleurs.  \nI. Title  \nPQ2613 .E53N613 1987 843’.912 87-414 ISBN-13: 9780802194244  \nGrove Press  \nan imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.  \n841 Broadway  \nNew York, NY 10003  \nDistributed by Publishers Group West  \n[www.groveatlantic.com](www.groveatlantic.com)  \n06 07 08 09 10 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10  \nWere it not for Maurice Pilorge, whose death keeps plaguing my life, I would never have written this book. I dedicate it to his memory.  \nJ. G.  \nTRANSLATOR'S NOTE  \nOur Lady of the Flowers (Notre-Dame des Fleurs)was published in a limited edition by L'Arbalète of Lyons in 1943. A trade edition, revised by the author, was issued by the Librairie Gallimard in 1951.  \nAn English translation based on the Arbalète edition was published by the Editions Morihien of Paris in 1949. The present text, which follows the now standard Gallimard edition, has been revised and corrected for English and American publication. Like the former, it is unabridged and unexpurgated.  \nThe translator is indebted to Richard Seaver for the exceptional care with which he read the translation, and takes this occasion to express gratitude for the number and diversity of his suggestions.  \nINTRODUCTION  \nby Jean-Paul Sartre  \nOur Lady of the Flowers, which is often considered to be Genet's  \nmasterpiece, was written entirely in the solitude of a prison cell. The exceptional value of the work lies in its ambiguity. It appears at first to have only one subject, Fatality: the characters are puppets of destiny. But we quickly discover that this pitiless Providence is really the counterpart of a sovereign–indeed divine–freedom, that of the author. Our Lady of the Flowers is the most pessimistic of books. With fiendish application it leads human creatures to downfall and death. And yet, in its strange language it presents this downfall as a triumph. The rogues and wretches of whom it speaks all seem to be heroes, to be of the elect. But what is far more astonishing, the book itself is an act of the rashest optimism.  \nFrench prison authorities, convinced that “work is freedom,” give the inmates paper from which they are required to make bags. It was on this brown paper that Genet wrote, in pencil, Our Lady of the Flowers. 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