Jean Genet, Miracle de la rose, l’oubli paradoxal

Genet was imprisoned from a young age. He could not, nor did he want to, forget this imprisonment. Miracle de la Rose, an allegorical dream and epic, oxymoronic song, is a back-to-front novel of initiation. Paradoxically, adventure is only a perpetual movement of descent, forgetting, and memory : only the abyss can lead to beauty.