Word: frechtman
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...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...
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