In Popular Culture
In Nigel Williams, Scenes from a Poisoner's Life (1994), Henry Farr the main protagonist gives Our Lady of the Flowers to his homosexual brother Nigel as a Christmas present.
The Pogues have a song titled "Hell's Ditch," which contains references to the novel.
Placebo's self-titled debut album features a song called "Lady Of The Flowers".
Cocorosie's song "Beautiful Boyz" is believed to be about it.
Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows' album Les Fleurs du Mal - Die Blumen des Bösen was greatly inspired by this book.
Pete Doherty used the quote from this book in his song "Last Of The English Roses".
Primal Scream have a song titled "Dolls (sweet Rock 'n' Roll)" in which mentioned the name of the novel.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.”
—Auguste Rodin (1849–1917)
“If you’re anxious for to shine in the high esthetic line as a man
of culture rare,
You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant
them everywhere.
You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your
complicated state of mind,
The meaning doesn’t matter if it’s only idle chatter of a
transcendental kind.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)