While drinking tea in a garret overlooking a cemetery, one character in this novel decides to leave a lover called the 'Quite-Quite' for one called (*) Mimosa II.
The narrator of this novel imagines a young man who becomes an entomologist because he learns that female scorpions devour their mates; that narrator then compares the time he repeatedly told a judge, "It was at night" to one character reading an administrative history book and learning that his mother has a noble maiden name. While drinking tea in a garret overlooking a cemetery, one character in this novel decides to leave a lover called the 'Quite-Quite' for one called (*) Mimosa II. Alberto coils snakes around the arm of this novel's poison-gathering protagonist, who was once called Lou Culafroy. The protagonist has affairs with the Greco-Roman wrestler Marchetti, the soldier Archangel Gabriel and the pimp Darling in this novel, which Jean-Paul Sartre called an "epic of masturbation." For 10 points, name this novel about the canonized transvestite prostitute Divine, written from prison by Jean Genet.
The narrator of this novel imagines a young man who becomes an entomologist because he learns that female scorpions devour their mates; that narrator then compares the time he repeatedly told a judge, "It was at night" to one character reading an administrative history book and learning that his mother has a noble maiden name.
Our Lady of the Flowers [or Notre Dame des Fleurs]