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By Frantz Fanon. Translated by Constance Farrington, with a Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1965. 255 pp.
STUDIES IN A DYING COLONIALISM. By Frantz Fanon. Translated by Haakon Chevalier, with an Introduction by Adolfo Gilly. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1965. 181 pp.
The appearance in English of these books, some four to six years after their original publication in France, is a historic event that may, to our detriment, go unnoticed in the United States. Their author was a young Negro physician and a psychoanalyst who was born in Martinique, trained in France, and practiced in Algeria. His brilliant life was terminated by cancer at the age of thirty-six in 1961.
Passionately anti-Western, Fanon addresses himself to the problems, shortcomings, and goals of the 'Third World'. The primary emphasis is on the eight-year Algerian War which cost the lives of more than a million people. The wider implications of this war are explored by the author whose scope includes problems which extend from New York to Los Angeles; from the Caribbean to Southeast Asia.
Fanon did not live to see the victory in algeria for which he had worked so ardently. Unlike Henri Alleg, whose La Question