Veneuse retreats into silence at the moment of direct encounter with the beloved
Evidence
Jean Veneuse is the crusader of the inner life. When he sees Andrée again, when he is face to face with this woman whom he has wanted for months and months, he takes refuge in silence, the eloquent silence of those who “know the artificiality of words and acts.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 291
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Refusing his blackness creates in Jean Veneuse an unconscious irrevocable rift