Close Up (Mar-Dec 1933)

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6 CLOSE UP it without even removing the skin. He is a negro. . ." But, since he needs for his debaucheries 200,000 francs a year, he hires for his literarv work anonymous intellectual outcasts and translators, paying them a wage that would be humiliating even for negroes working under the lash of a mulatto." " Your father was black," someone told Dumas to his face. " My grandfather was a monkey," he answered with a loud guffaw. To* his friend, Beranger, who had begun to be troubled by the rumours of the " literary piracy of the ' fat nigger,' " Dumas wrote :