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...BLACK CONSUL - Anatolu Vinogradov- Viking ($2.75). In this historical novel of Haiti and the French Revolution by a Soviet author, Toussaint l'Ouverture. Robespierre, Marat, Lafayette and other great men of the epoch take the stage. Vinogradov's method of fictionalizing history is to incorporate verbatim reports taken from original sources into his stories. Thus the unsuspecting reader is treated to actual state papers, speeches, documents. Vinogradov may have been the first historical novelist to make extensive use of this method, but Guy Endore. U. S. novelist, employed the same technique in Babouk, his novel of a West...
...racial make-up of the country. The French made the original mistake in bringing prisoners of war to work the land. These were no black slaves, but the sons of native kings and warriors who were accustomed to hold slaves themselves. France discovered this when the ragged troops of Toussaint L'Ouverture drove the army of the great Napoleon to the sea, and later repulsed the forces that England sent against them. In the Haitians is the fierce, arrogant spirit of ancestors used to independence and conquest...
...eleven poems in Nicodemus, seven are reprinted from magazines. Like many a matured poet before him, Robinson has turned to Biblical and historical themes: Nicodemus, Sisera. Gideon, the Prodigal Son, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Ponce de Leon. Most of them are written in Robinson's familiar, intricately lucid blank verse. Of the lyrics, many a reader will prefer the verses on "Hector Kane." who, at 85, was still skeptical of the passage of time, died of a stroke in the midst of his skeptic's boast...
...tenants try to bully him. But by means of his extraordinary pertinacity he wins at least respite. Handback. on discovering how Gracie took part against him. commits suicide. The force behind Miltiades' tragic story has, willy-nilly, affected everybody in Florence ? Landers, the second- sighted postmaster; Toussaint, a Vaiden octoroon; Miltiades' nephew, particularly a young highly Jerry Catlin, attractive character whose undeveloped capabilities leave the book with an aftermath to be harvested, presumably, in the closing novel of Author Stribling's cycle...
...population came three figures, great men of all times, black Napoleons. Each had a dream of empire and each desired to create a free country for his fellow-blacks. The first of these was a wizened little doctor who made the Haitians realize that they could achieve their dream. Toussaint was his name; L'ouverture he was called because of his enormous success. When he was trapped by the French, Dessalines and Christopher followed in his footsteps. Although each met a tragic death, they accomplished something, for a black empire had been set up, and despite the fighting that ensued...