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| | SCREEN:'THE GUEST,' LIFE OF MARAIS - New York Times |
 | | Fugard himself as Marais, is set in 1926, when Marais, in one of his periodic attempts to overcome his habit, is persuaded by a doctor-friend to go into comparative isolation on an Afrikaner farm. |
 | | Marais, whose seminal but still controversial studies, ''The Soul of the Ape'' and ''The Soul of the White Ant,'' were hailed by Robert Ardrey in his ''African Genesis,'' is a bristly, brilliant, doomed character in Mr. |
 | | Marais is obsessed by pain, which becomes, for him, ''the principal condition of all existence.'' ''Escape from pain,'' he says, ''is the purpose of all striving.'' He goes on to equate knowledge with grief - ''the man who increases knowledge increases sorrow.'' |
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