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STEPHANIA (375 pp.)-llona Karmel-Houghton Mifflin...
...brilliant major novels, but it has already introduced some highly promising first novelists, e.g., 27-year-old George Lanning, author of The Happy Rural Seat, and 31-year-old Jefferson Young, who wrote A Good Man (see Recent & Readable). Now comes a 27-year-old Polish girl named llona Karmel with a quietly gripping story called Stephania...
...llona Karmel spent her late teens in Nazi concentration camps, and when V-E came, her body was wasted and broken. Her spirit, as events proved, was intact. After a prolonged convalescence in Stockholm, llona was admitted to the U.S. in 1948, and last year graduated from Radcliffe. While enrolled in a "creative writing" course given by Poet Archibald MacLeish at Harvard,* she began a novel about her Stockholm experience which so impressed MacLeish that he recommended it to his publisher...
...Ilona Karmel has written the longest piece, another installment of her reminiscences of Europe, which are soon to be published as a novel called "Cobbler's Paradise." In this one, we find little Stephania in a hospital in some unspecified part of Scandinavia, shooting the breeze with her Scandinavian comrades and reminiscing over the death of her father at the hands of the Nazis. There are two strands running through the chapter--a rather objectivized analysis of the Jewish conception of death, and a highly subjective narration of the guilt feelings which generally accompany the premature death of a close...
...Advocate, entitled "Errata" and consisting solely of tid-bits "regrettably" omitted from the Faulkner issue due to "proof errors." We look forward to the inclusion of this department on a regular basis, as it is a unique way of providing continuity from one issue to another. Miss Karmel seems to have been singled out for "the treatment" by this month's proofreaders. She was deprived of more than one set of quotation marks which should rightfully have been hers, and was subjected to the delightful variant: "So I just waived my hand...