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...WOMAN NAMED SOLITUDE by ANDRE SCHWARZ-BART 178 pages. Atheneum...
...writers like Andre Schwarz-Bart, it must sometimes seem that history is a dream with no awakening. There is a heightened talking in one's sleep, however, that is called prose fiction. In 1959 Schwarz-Bart, the French-born son of a Polish Jewish family annihilated by the Nazis, published The Last of the Just. It was a novel that rose directly out of 700 years of history and anti-Semitism onto the bestseller lists. Schwarz-Bart shaped his book around the ancient Hebrew legend of the 36 just men, whose job it was to suffer mankind...
...novel, Schwarz-Bart asks the 36 men to move over and make room for a woman. Her name is Solitude, a green-eyed mulatto who was conceived at sea during the pariade, the official rape fest common aboard 18th century slave ships when sailors were let loose in the cargo hold...
...Schwarz-Bart (9) 9. A Shooting Star, Stegner (8) 10. A Journey to Matecumbe, Taylor...
...Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart...