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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...
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