Miracle Of The Rose by Jean Genet
A lyrical, confessional narrative in which a narrator recollects his years in a juvenile reformatory and later in a grim prison, turning memories of petty theft, confinement, and violence into an intense meditation on desire, loyalty, and exile. Obsessed with certain fellow inmates and the rituals of punishment, he transforms brutal scenes—a hanging, the routines of incarceration—into quasi-religious visions that blur beauty and degradation, guilt and longing. The prose is spare and poetic, probing how erotic attachment and memory can become a form of salvation amid social abandonment and shame.
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- Published
- 1946
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- 150-200 pages
- Original Language
- French
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- Le Miracle de la Rose
- The Miracle of the Rose
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