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...comes as no surprise, then, that Dongala’s Little Boys Come from the Stars (translated from the French Les Petits Garcons Naissent Aussi des Etoiles), his first book out of exile, reads as a political satire. Through the eyes of 15-year-old Matapari, we get a naïve, Candide-like account of Congolese politics, especially from Matapari’s impressions of his Uncle Boula Boula, the lapdog extraordinaire of the regime-of-the-moment. During a visit from the “President” (actually a Communist dictator) and his officials, Matapari remarks...
...early fifties, his short Les Statues Meurent Aussi was banned by the French Censor and eventually released only after a third of its footage had been cut. Commissioned by Presence Africaine, a black group inside France, and dealing with the effect of European colonization on African art, the film struck the French government as an attack on colonialism. Says Resnais: "Some people think movies can be very dangerous. I don't think so. I don't think movies can change the world just like that...
...overlook the fact that Destroy, She Said is mummifyingly boring, it is actually quite a lot of fun. Marguerite Duras, who executed this excellent satire, has good credentials for the job. Besides writing the screenplays for Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Une Aussi Longue Absence she also attended the birth of the anti-novel movement, making such notable contributions to the genre as Moderato Cantabile and The Sea Wall. In her directorial debut, she has unfortunately committed one rather crucial error. She seems to have been the only one who didn't get her own joke...
...find them in this rabble, this canaille, These sans-culottes in shirtsleeves, sans, aussi, The least investiture of quality. Off the Long Island Rail Road cars they swarm With Morning Telegraph or Racing Form And A rmstrong's Scratch Sheet, pouring towards the gates Beside which other literature awaits As benefice, whose fain purveyors call In accents more than audible by all, "Jack's Little Green Card!", "docker Lawton!!", "Hey, Got that Daily Double again today!!!" Don't trust these men, no matter how sincere Solicitude may cause them to appear...
...Merde alors," she says in Paris. "Moi aussi...