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imaginative freedom. The novel was a prison which -locked
G~net
in a narcissistic obsession. The theater opens
him
naturally
to
the world and to the love of the others.
In fact,
Les Negres
is as a whole an act of poetic love. For
the blacks, of course; but, through the blacks, for outcasts of
every kind; and through the outcasts, simply for
the others,
the
persons different from us, the unreachable and incomprehensible
"others"-just as they are, with their deformities, their passions,
their impenetrable sorrow, with the incalculable distance that
separates them from us and the infinite resemblance that ties
them to all of us.
Les Negres
is a moving play.
Nicola Chiaromonte
(Translated from the Italian
by
Raymond R osenthal )
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