Word: genetics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marquis de Sade and Genet...
...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...
...Jean Genet, as a dedicated pervert, might write lyrically of this shameful ?lace, but not so First Novelist Floyd Salas, 25, who spent time in similar institutions before winning a boxing scholarship at the University of California, later a master's degree in English at San Francisco State College. More realistically than Genet, Salas looks back in anger. Unhappily, the anger and obscenity get the better of his prose. On every page, hyperbole and hypertension batter good sense to a pulp magazine...
...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...