ABSTRACT
Stories and novellas by Regis Debray appeared while he was still imprisoned at Camiri, and they hinted that the author of manifestos also had creative talents. Debray now views himself with a measure of ironical detachment. Still, to transform a heroic legend into a grotesque tragic-comedy must have called up in Debray almost as much courage as did his role in that ill-starred guerrilla campaign in Bolivia. Jean Genet, a self-proclaimed enemy of pornography, forbade his actors even to light a cigarette on stage. In many French towns and cities, the list of forthcoming attractions offers nothing but porn. Henri Zophiralos, the porn-film distributor, cynically comments that after all people can always seek refuge in TV. In Rome, a feminist organization has sought an injunction against Berlanga's film Life Size, with Michel Piccoli, in which a man devotes himself to a life-size doll.
