Miracle of the Rose Jean Genet 9780571250387 Books
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This nightmarish account of prison life during the German occupation of France is dominated by the figure of the condemned murderer Harcamone, who takes root and bears unearthly blooms in the ecstatic and brooding imagination of his fellow prisoner Genet.
aura, as he does in this book. Jean Genet is one of a kind writer .
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Jean Genet's Miracle of the Rose is a struggle to read and a relief to finish. The semi-autobiographical novel, Genet's second, has an "extraordinarily tangled" narrative line in the words of Edmund White, who wrote a comprehensive autobiography of Genet. The story is based on the author's reminiscences of his teenage years in the Mettray prison for youth and his adult years in another prison in France including years of the German occupation in WWII. In Genet's fantastical telling the foulness of prison life becomes saintliness and pain and suffering become imbued with religious-like meaning and beauty. "I am carried along...into prison, into foulness, into dreaming and hell, and finally lands me in a garden of saintliness where roses bloom..."
There are many nuggets of beauty scattered throughout the novel which will reward the patient reader especially if one is not put off by same sex relationships between prisoners and descriptions of harshness and violence in prison and controversial and exotic opinions and dreams about life in these conditions.
Describing why he had to pretend to be tough and uninterested in a younger prisoner whom he desired Genet describes his feelings "I made a final effort to lock myself in behind a door that might have revealed my heart's secret and enabled Bulkaen (the younger prisoner) to enter me as he would a conquered country, mounted, in boots and spurs, holding a whip, with an insult on his lips, for a youngster is never gentle with a man who worships him. I replied therefore roughly; Your friendship? Who the hell wants your friendship!"
In a late scene in the story the author's character is forced by seven older big shot prisoners to stand with his mouth stretched as open as possible as the others took turns spitting into his mouth and face. "Yet a trifle would have sufficed for the ghastly game to be transformed into a courtly one and for me to be covered not with spit but roses that had been tossed at me...it would cost no more for them to hurl happiness...I waited for roses..."
Good second work from Genet. I personally prefer the Our Lady of the Flowers but a must read for anyone interested in this man and his writing.
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I am sure there must be deeper existential lessons to be learned here that I have missed, as Genet delves into the depths of the degradation of prison life and in particular into a rash of homosexual trysts, spanning several prisons and Reform Schools. However, whatever the larger message is, it seems to me it has been missed or is overshadowed by a familiar and troubling but very common psychological motif The desire to make his netherworld, his underworld at the outer border of human degradation, seem normal and pathetically heroic in the same way that any victimized subgroups uses denial and pretense to romanticize, enlarge and otherwise turn their indignities in life into heroic actions via literary device. If this interpretation is correct. It is not an entirely honest way of using language to rise above an embarrassing reality. And really, how heroic is that?
The beauty of the language aside -- and it is beautiful indeed -- the first emotion evoked at these dives down into (and below) the subhuman is pity, then sorrow, then shame; never heroism, never dignity, never defiance; only capitulation. Even Harcamone's "suicide by legal death sentence" (by killing a prison guard) seems more like a coward's escape than a hero's gallant exit to me.
Certainly there is an artistic backside to all of this that cannot be denied. I have not missed the delicacy of Genet's language It is like Miles Davis' tone of walking on eggshell raised to a new level. His ability to pack his language with inchoate hatred and anger has no peers it must have been what Emile Griffith was thinking just before he unleashed the fusillade that killed Benny "Kid" Paret in the ring in 1962. However, beautiful language as a lament is still a lament, unless the whole fabric of the story is pulled together to a higher psychological plane.
So far, I have not seen Genet do that in this much-praised book. I have several others of his, and I will be watching like a hawk to see if this psychological circle is closed. Without that, for me at least, this is a three star effort.
A great book. Genet knew the attraction of the search for Truth would be ruthless. He was right.
Jean Genet is the most exquisite of the poets maudits. Every word of him has the bittersweet savour of the pleasures of hell. You'll love his obsession whit nasty hoodlums which he transmogrifies in almost saintly objects of desire. Genet is an artist on sublimating the most earthly feeling in almost mystical esperiences, and in giving the most dreary places and situations a sensual or mystic (you almost cannot distinguish )
aura, as he does in this book. Jean Genet is one of a kind writer .
Miracle of the Rose Jean Genet 9780571250387 Books
Jean Genet is the most exquisite of the poets maudits. Every word of him has the bittersweet savour of the pleasures of hell. You'll love his obsession whit nasty hoodlums which he transmogrifies in almost saintly objects of desire. Genet is an artist on sublimating the most earthly feeling in almost mystical esperiences, and in giving the most dreary places and situations a sensual or mystic (you almost cannot distinguish )aura, as he does in this book. Jean Genet is one of a kind writer .
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Miracle of the Rose Jean Genet 9780571250387 Books Reviews
Jean Genet's Miracle of the Rose is a struggle to read and a relief to finish. The semi-autobiographical novel, Genet's second, has an "extraordinarily tangled" narrative line in the words of Edmund White, who wrote a comprehensive autobiography of Genet. The story is based on the author's reminiscences of his teenage years in the Mettray prison for youth and his adult years in another prison in France including years of the German occupation in WWII. In Genet's fantastical telling the foulness of prison life becomes saintliness and pain and suffering become imbued with religious-like meaning and beauty. "I am carried along...into prison, into foulness, into dreaming and hell, and finally lands me in a garden of saintliness where roses bloom..."
There are many nuggets of beauty scattered throughout the novel which will reward the patient reader especially if one is not put off by same sex relationships between prisoners and descriptions of harshness and violence in prison and controversial and exotic opinions and dreams about life in these conditions.
Describing why he had to pretend to be tough and uninterested in a younger prisoner whom he desired Genet describes his feelings "I made a final effort to lock myself in behind a door that might have revealed my heart's secret and enabled Bulkaen (the younger prisoner) to enter me as he would a conquered country, mounted, in boots and spurs, holding a whip, with an insult on his lips, for a youngster is never gentle with a man who worships him. I replied therefore roughly; Your friendship? Who the hell wants your friendship!"
In a late scene in the story the author's character is forced by seven older big shot prisoners to stand with his mouth stretched as open as possible as the others took turns spitting into his mouth and face. "Yet a trifle would have sufficed for the ghastly game to be transformed into a courtly one and for me to be covered not with spit but roses that had been tossed at me...it would cost no more for them to hurl happiness...I waited for roses..."
Good second work from Genet. I personally prefer the Our Lady of the Flowers but a must read for anyone interested in this man and his writing.
Exactly what I ordered. Thanks!
I am sure there must be deeper existential lessons to be learned here that I have missed, as Genet delves into the depths of the degradation of prison life and in particular into a rash of homosexual trysts, spanning several prisons and Reform Schools. However, whatever the larger message is, it seems to me it has been missed or is overshadowed by a familiar and troubling but very common psychological motif The desire to make his netherworld, his underworld at the outer border of human degradation, seem normal and pathetically heroic in the same way that any victimized subgroups uses denial and pretense to romanticize, enlarge and otherwise turn their indignities in life into heroic actions via literary device. If this interpretation is correct. It is not an entirely honest way of using language to rise above an embarrassing reality. And really, how heroic is that?
The beauty of the language aside -- and it is beautiful indeed -- the first emotion evoked at these dives down into (and below) the subhuman is pity, then sorrow, then shame; never heroism, never dignity, never defiance; only capitulation. Even Harcamone's "suicide by legal death sentence" (by killing a prison guard) seems more like a coward's escape than a hero's gallant exit to me.
Certainly there is an artistic backside to all of this that cannot be denied. I have not missed the delicacy of Genet's language It is like Miles Davis' tone of walking on eggshell raised to a new level. His ability to pack his language with inchoate hatred and anger has no peers it must have been what Emile Griffith was thinking just before he unleashed the fusillade that killed Benny "Kid" Paret in the ring in 1962. However, beautiful language as a lament is still a lament, unless the whole fabric of the story is pulled together to a higher psychological plane.
So far, I have not seen Genet do that in this much-praised book. I have several others of his, and I will be watching like a hawk to see if this psychological circle is closed. Without that, for me at least, this is a three star effort.
A great book. Genet knew the attraction of the search for Truth would be ruthless. He was right.
Jean Genet is the most exquisite of the poets maudits. Every word of him has the bittersweet savour of the pleasures of hell. You'll love his obsession whit nasty hoodlums which he transmogrifies in almost saintly objects of desire. Genet is an artist on sublimating the most earthly feeling in almost mystical esperiences, and in giving the most dreary places and situations a sensual or mystic (you almost cannot distinguish )
aura, as he does in this book. Jean Genet is one of a kind writer .
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