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...novel calculated to disgust, Tattoo the Wicked Cross succeeds in its primary objective. Its subjects are prison, prestige and pederasty, more or less in that order, and will remind readers of the works of Jean Genet (The Blacks, Miracle of the Rose), celebrant of sodomy in the bastilles of modern France...
This time the setting is California, and those who retain some literary standards in today's bull market will note the marked inferiority of the local products to Genet's gothic...
...Savage Eye, an impressionistic documentary about a lonely divorcee, has been little distributed. Another, The Balcony, is evoked amusingly in the scene of Ulysses which represents the book's Circe episode. In The Balcony Strick was groping energetically, if not successfully, for new film conventions to express Genet's revolutionary theatrical form. In Ulysses he has recreated Joyce's form superbly, has proved himself a great translator. The mind delights in considering the unconventional literary masterpieces he might next adapt. My own first candidate is Tristram Shandy, the eighteenth-century grandfather of Ulysses...
...seven climbers reached the 17,300-ft. level by Feb. 26. One day later, all seven tried a 3,000-ft. dash to the summit. They were forced back by "white-out"-zero visibility, caused by fog against the snow. Next day, three of the party-Art Davidson, Ray Genet and Dave Johnston-struck out again for the top, finally made it at 7 p.m., paused just long enough to bury Batkin's cap and started back down, only to run into a raging storm...
...that Harper's Bazaar "has become less literary and more topical" [Feb. 24]. Yet among the authors appearing since Nancy White became the editor in chief are Cyril Connolly, Jean Genet, Robert Musil, W. H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Evelyn Waugh, Eugene Ionesco, Nathalie Sarraute, Robert Lowell, Jorge Luis Borges, Heinrich Böll, Donald Barthelme, Susan Sontag, Francoíse Mallet-Joris, Pierre Gascar...