Word: conchon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SAVAGE STATE, by Georges Conchon. This scorching satire on race politics in Africa is written with an acetylene torch, should be read through goggles...
...SAVAGE STATE by Georges Conchon. 222 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...white and black is black in the new Africa, but the twain meet on one point of principle: even more than each hates the other, they hate anybody who tries to erase the color line that divides them. Such is the sardonic opinion of France's Georges Conchon, a former Secretary-General of the Central African Republic, and he expresses his opinion with sadistic delight in this ferociously witty satire on the men and movements of contemporary Africa...
Racism is the proximate cause of Conchon's rage, but all man's inhumanity is the ultimate butt of his abhorrence. In scenes both hilarious and scarifying, he slashes at the sickly fear, pride, cruelty and self-deceit that hide behind the name of love until they dare assume the shape of hate...
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