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KYRA KYRALINA-Panait Istrati -Knopf ($2.50). A Gorki of the Balkans...
KYRA KYRALINA-Panait Istrati -Knopf ($2.50). Five years ago, hospital attendants in Nice found upon the person of a wretch who had cut his throat unsuccessfully, a letter addressed to Author Romain Rolland, the French pacifist-humanist. The patient lived and, encouraged by M. Rolland, wrote many stories, of which this book contains the first three to be published in English...
Born 42 years ago of a Rumanian peasant woman and a Creel smuggler, Panaït Istrati is an unhappy, passionate son of the Balkans with a talent for headlong talespinning that must have come to him from across the Bosporus. He writes out of the life he has led, chiefly here around one Stavro sly peddler of drink at fairs, upon whose sensitive nature, to the point of perversion, have been wreaked the brutal inheritance of an ancient jumble of hot, primitive races Stavro relates the tragedy of his marriage, thwarted by impotence; the kidnaping of his madcap sister...
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