ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author has chosen three different literary forms: novel, drama, and autobiography, in order to explore several forms of relationship between narrator/author and reader or audience. It explores relationship between narrator/author and reader is central to these works, more important than any specific content or fantasy elaboration. The implicit hypothesis maintained that the relationship between a perverse writer and his audience may approximate a perverse sexual experience. Jean Genet wrote Our Lady of the Flowers in Fresnes Prison at the age of thirty-two. The narrator of Our Lady of the Flowers describes his writing as an interlude between masturbating and says that he is reporting his masturbation fantasies. However, the narrator drives home to the reader that he is unable to cope with his severe depression, fears of madness, isolation, loneliness, and vulnerability when he is alone with his fantasies and with his masturbation.
