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MIRACLE OF THE ROSE by Jean Genet. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. 344 pages. Grove Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Impenitent Thief | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

...Rose depends on the authenticity of the prison argot. As a ten-time loser who has spent a good part of his first 35 years in reformatories and jails, Genet doubtless knows the con's language like a native, but when it comes to English equivalents, Translator Frechtman has no luck at all. Genet, who is a practicing pervert and retired male prostitute, presumably knows the camp language exchanged by consenting adults. And it is hard to believe, for example, that a kiss between homosexual males should be described as "a smack"-a word which had some facetious currency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Impenitent Thief | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

...Blacks (translated from the French of Jean Genet by Bernard Frechtman) finds the most trenchant of French avant-gardists once more leading his own fierce assault on his own unyielding terms. Avantgarde, with Genet, is in part millenniums-old ancien regime. His originality rests on the very origins of theater, on ritual and ceremony, magic and masks; his modernity lies in how he reshapes, distorts, sophisticates, extends hem. Of all this The Blacks-a white nan's often extraordinary venture into Negro fantasy and psychology-is strong-y compacted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Play Off Broadway: May 12, 1961 | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

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