Frantz Fanon: A Biography.(Review)

Frantz Fanon: A Biography By David Macey. Picador USA, 656 pages, $40.00

IN THE LAST YEAR OF HIS LIFE, psychiatrist Frantz Fanon wrote a book whose impact he could scarcely have imagined. In breathtaking prose, he caught a wind of change sweeping the world--the great postwar revolt against the European empires. He spoke of colonialism and what could come next in terms that no other writer has ever quite matched. If he turned out to be wrong in significant ways--and biographer David Macey does not mind pointing out where he erred--it scarcely matters. As a record of a ...