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Died. Jacques Séraphin Audiberti, 66, leading French avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet, a surrealist who enlivened the French stage in 1946 with Quoat-Quoat, a bitter commentary on self-martyrdom, and in 19 other plays depicted the conflict of good and evil in a jarring mixture of scatological slang and 16th century classicism, in 1962 causing near riots when the most scandalous of all, The Ant in the Body, was consecrated at France's venerable Comédie-Française; of cancer; in Paris...
...Americans have ever heard of Jacques Séraphin Audiberti, but in Europe his fame is that of a Tennessee Williams or an Arthur Miller. At 63, Audiberti is considered by some critics to be France's best postwar playwright and a prime candidate for the Academic Française. He is also turning out to be somewhat controversial for a man who claims that he is "very bourgeois" and "not at all avant-garde." Last week Audiberti was in seclusion at a country house 60 miles outside Paris after one of his plays had shocked old-line Paris...
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