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...tell the truth at last and then no more light at last, for the truth?" The light does not answer, but Beckett does, and the play is repeated, word for word, a second time and the beginning of a third Man is doomed, Beckett seems to be say ing...
...novels and two poems that had long been banned; five other proscribed works have been announced for future publication. The return to grace of these forbidden works is part of the continuing campaign against the Gang of Four, headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow Chiang Ch'ing. At a Peking literary forum two weeks ago, 20 authors-including some whose works have been newly rehabilitated-attacked the Gang for "wantonly disrupting the creation of literary works...
...attack by the fanatical Red Guards. After a dutiful attempt to write proletarian poetry in accord with the party line of that chaotic period, Lao She told his wife he was leaving home in search of "a peaceful place." He walked to the nearby T'ai-p'ing (Great Peace) Lake in Peking, where he drowned himself at the age of 67. Subsequently, all of his novels, plays, poetry and humorous sketches were banned. Last month the magazine People's Literature published two of Lao's last poems. According to one stanza, "If there were...
...again he confessed abjectly to his sins. After that ordeal he was restored to his post as professor of philosophy at Peking University. Last month Feng fell victim to the campaign against the Gang of Four. His crime: writing a poem in 1974 that favorably compared Chiang Ch'ing with the dictatorial 7th century Empress Wu. The aged philosopher was excoriated as an "adviser" to the Gang who had "swindled the public" and "maliciously abused the proletarian revolutionary forces...
Last week the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported that another of Chiang Ch'ing's protégés, Yu Hui-yung, a composer who had been Minister of Culture, had succeeded where Chuang had failed. Yu reportedly committed suicide by gulping large amounts of poisonous detergent in a latrine in the Culture Ministry, where he had been forced to work as a janitor...