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...Americans have ever heard of Jacques Séraphin Audiberti, but in Europe his fame is that of a Tennessee Williams or an Arthur Miller. At 63, Audiberti is considered by some critics to be France's best postwar playwright and a prime candidate for the Academic Française. He is also turning out to be somewhat controversial for a man who claims that he is "very bourgeois" and "not at all avant-garde." Last week Audiberti was in seclusion at a country house 60 miles outside Paris after one of his plays had shocked old-line Paris...
Audiberti recently became a contributor to the Comédie Française, thus assuring himself of a sort of down payment on immortality. Used to stumer fare, the mink-and-diamond Comédie audience could hardly believe what they heard in Audiberti's play, The Ant in the Body...
...Française insisted on keeping the play on its program, and audiences since then have calmed down...
...Audiberti works will be in even the most elementary textbooks for the study of the French language." Unmoved by either condemnation or praise, the stocky, balding Audiberti roams about his country retreat in flabby corduroys and an old suede jacket, working on a new play (La Brigitta) for Actress Françoise Spira. "Very difficult, very difficult," says Audiberti to a visitor. "In fact, I think you're sitting on it. It's the story of a successful woman of 30 who comes in contact with herself-a thin, poor, timid girl of 20. What does...
...ACADEMIE FRANÇAISE. "As I see it now, I wouldn't want to belong. I think the last crop they let in is just not up to standard. There are others on the outside worth more than many on the inside-André Breton, Paulhan, Lévi-Strauss, Sartre if he weren't such an idiot, such a strange, bizarre monster...