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BLACK MONASTERY? Aladar Kuncz? Harcourt, Brace...
BLACK MONASTERY?Aladar Kuncz? Harcourt, Brace ($2.75). On the small shelf of the world's prison literature, side by side with Feodor Dostoevsky's The House of Death and e. e. cummings' The Enormous Room, a place will be found for the late Aladar Kuncz's Black Monastery. The record of a five-year imprisonment in France during the War, this book is a subtly horrible monument to man's inhumanity to man. Superficially less gruesome than many a record of front-line fighting, its nightmarish quality develops imperceptibly, will leave most readers shaking their heads in an unsuccessful attempt...
...Aladar Kuncz, a young Hungarian teacher, was spending his 1914 summer holiday in a Breton seaside village. News of the War's beginning sent him scurrying to Paris, where with hundreds of his countrymen he besieged his consulate, tried to get transportation home or to some neutral country. Too late for the last train, he and his kind were interned "for the duration of the War." Luckily for them, they had no idea how long that was to be. After a few weeks' temporary detention in a garage at Périgueux. Kuncz and his comrades were sent to Noirmoutier...
...Author. A Hungarian of Transylvania (now Rumania). Aladar Kuncz had small reputation in his own country, was unknown outside. But his friends knew he was an essayist, biographer, a knowledgeable connoisseur of literature. In poor health, he worked away at Black Monastery, his one big book, lived to see it published (May 1931) seven weeks before his death. Though the Versailles Treaty whittled Hungary down to an impoverished fraction of its pre-War self, 20,000 copies of Author Kuncz's last testament have been sold there...
Orated Count Aladar Zichy, Royalist leader...