Our Lady of the Flowers (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Genet
- First Published: 1944
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Impressionistic realism
- Time of Work: The late 1930’s and early 1940’s
- Setting: Fresnes prison, Paris, and the provinces
- Genres: Long fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: Values, Prisoners, France or French people, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, 1940’s, Prostitution or prostitutes, Paris, 1930’s, Capital punishment
- Locales: Paris, France
Characters Discussed
Our Lady of the Flowers, a convicted murderer. In real life, he was Adrien Baillon, born on December 19, 1920, and executed on February 2, 1939. In the story, he is identified by the titular sobriquet, by his real name, and as an imaginary extension of “Maurice Pilorge,” the name given him by the author in an earlier poem and retained as the name of the person to whose memory the novel is dedicated. As a character in the story, he is loved by Divine, Seck Gorgui, and others, is affectionately called Danie, and is engaged in drug dealing with Marchetti....
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