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A WOMAN NAMED SOLITUDE by ANDRE SCHWARZ-BART 178 pages. Atheneum. $5.95.
For writers like Andre Schwarz-Bart, it must sometimes seem that history is a dream with no awakening. There is a heightened talking in one's sleep, however, that is called prose fiction. In 1959 Schwarz-Bart, the French-born son of a Polish Jewish family annihilated by the...
An historical woman called Solitude actually existed. Schwarz-Bart notes that she was captured and executed on Nov. 29, 1802, immediately after giving birth. His fictional Solitude has a more complex background. Married to a Guadeloupian woman, Schwarz-Bart, 44, set out some years ago to write a se ries...
The works of such increasingly sophisticated artists as Rigaud Benoit, Andre Normil and Prefete Duffaut are already selling at hundreds and even thousands of dollars. But bargains can still be had if tourists are willing to search out true primitives like St. Pierre, who works as a caretaker at a...
Hesse's work oscillated between fundamentalism and funk: on one hand, a reductive, seemingly casual approach to sculpture, which also lay behind the scatterings and floor pieces of artists like Richard Serra and Carl Andre (shavings, or planks, or tiles, or indeed anything except a figure on a base...