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LA DIVINA CARICATURA: A FICTION by Lee Breuer, Green Integer, Kobenhavn and Los Angeles. 276 pp, $14.95 paper.

FOR YEARS, DIRECTOR LEE BREUER HAS said that he sees himself primarily as a writer. He gleaned his guiding principle, he professed, from a teacher who urged him early on to "write into the metaphor." After three decades of doing exactly that in his scripts, Breuer has produced La Divina Caricatura, a work of fiction that rides metaphor into the darkest recesses of the artist's life in contemporary U.S. society.

Breuer and Mabou Mines, the theatre company ...

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