Word: karmel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alfred Chaoul Khozouri Bakhash '59 of Lowell House and Teheran has received the $500 Helen Choate Bell prize for his essay "Combat with the Sun: A Study of Wallace Stevens' 'Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction.'" Honorable mention went to Mrs. Roberta Segal Karmel '59 of Boston for her essay "William Dean Howells and the Isolated Personality...
...only work of fiction in i.e. is an except entitled The Baumans from Hona Karmel's forthcoming novel. Miss Karmel's story deals with the survivors of the Nazi ghettos in post-war Poland; it evokes as well the experience of the ghetto itself, and of the pre-war life of a Jewish family. Specifically, we are confronted with the characterization of two individuals a mother and a daughter. Is it enough that Miss Karmel has attained a "skillful" delineation of these figures, a "striking" presentation of their personal dilema? Has she a right to utilize a human drama charged...
...questions imply the recognition of considerable merits in her story. Certainly, profound dilemmas are not always enacted on a plane of heroic tragedy. To depict sordidness itself as a component of great actions is also a task, and Miss Karmel seems aware of it. Furthermore, her ability to marshall the facts themselves so vividly that her probing of them appears glaringly inadequate, indicates the measure of her technical accomplishment. It is the most basic responsibility to that technique, however, which I find lacking...
Even the Literary Guild, customarily little interested in unknown novelists, chose three first novels in 1953, and two were good. Stephania, a story of difficult and subtle relationships among patients in a Swedish hospital, was the surprising work of Ilona Karmel, a Polish graduate of Nazi concentration camps who wrote an adopted English that was both expert and moving. The other was Helen Fowler's The Intruder, an Australian novel about a mind-sick veteran and the family of his dead buddy. Another notable first was Mr. Nicholas, a whiplash dissection of a tyrannical London father by young...
Writing English as if she had been born to the language, Ilona Karmel has composed a novel of admirable restraint. She has sketched in the horrors of Stephania's past only lightly, and has avoided the trap of feeling sorry for her heroine. In its quiet, even-paced way, Stephania is a novel of complete integrity-and a testimonial to one of the human rights that finally bind all men together, the right to suffer...