Word: genetic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editor and publisher is Barney Rosset, 45, president of Grove Press, a house that specializes in erotica and avant-garde authors. Its hard-cover Black Circle books and its Black Cat and Zebra paperbacks embrace everything from outright pornography (The Pearl) to mystical flights of sexual fantasy (Jean Genet's Miracle of the Rose) to revolutionary calls to action (Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth). It also has a generous supply of European anti-novelists and provocative psychologists...
...work, Henry IV is a fascinating precursor of the entire theater of the absurd-the anguish over existence in Sartre and Camus, the guerrilla warfare against ossified language and the mass mind in lonesco, the bleak, alienated vision of Beckett, the sense of man eternally acting a role in Genet, and the use of the stage as a self-contained universe in Pinter. In a towering display of the actor's craft, Kenneth Haigh confers unbrooked, unhinged regality on the title character while coiling the inner man into a sentient ball or pain...
...have been as unlikely to pass such a law as Duluth. At the time, Danish courts could-and did-successfully ban such standard suppressibles as the Marquis de Sade and Fanny Hill. But as in the U.S. a decade ago, the explicitly sensational works of Henry Miller and Jean Genet were beginning to slip by. Over the years, liberalizing pressures began to build, until by 1967 kiosks abounded with magazines and paperbacks whose photographs of sexual variations and contortions made their descriptive prose unnecessary...
...traffics in cigarettes and Benzedrine inhalers. Prison officials frame him in a homosexual plot, and he is shunted into the psychiatric ward. Though a swift, engrossing narrative in its own right, Braly's novel stands as a caustic indictment of the American penal system. From Dostoevsky to Genet, writers have used prison as an effective metaphor of the human condition. Braly strips away the literary conceits and makes life on the inside painfully real...
...seeing Broadway for the first time in a bold, resourceful production that is the opening repertory offering of the APA-Phoenix's current Manhattan season. Ghelderode may at last begin to strike roots in the same theatrical and intellectual soil that has proved hospitable to Beckett, lonesco and Genet...