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AWAKENING (244 pp.]-Jean-Baptiste Rossi-Harper...
Each year the French award all manner of writing prizes, but they give none for pure precocity. If they did, the 1950 prize would certainly have gone to a 19-year-old boy from Marseilles named Jean-Baptiste Rossi. In that year, he published a novel he had written at the age of 16 which most parents of 16-year-olds would scarcely want their children to read: the story of a love affair between a teen-age boy and a Roman Catholic nun. What startled critics almost as much as the subject was the youngster's writing ability...
When the book was published in England as The False Start, the critics dusted off some of their most generous phrases. The New Statesman and Nation called it a "limpid and exquisite love story"; The Recorder suggested that young Rossi might grow up to become "another Flaubert." Young Jean's little novel has now been published in the U.S. under the title Awakening, and, while it seems to have been a bit overrated, it is at least a remarkable book for a teen-age author...
...peasants to discover their little idyl, and soon the whole pathetic story was out. Sister Clothilde left her order, Denis was hustled off to school. Both knew that they had made a false start; both believed that they belonged together and would some day meet again. Shrewd young Author Rossi makes no promises...
Teacher Ilda Rossi considered Fabio's problem. Why, she asked, didn't he write a letter to a newspaper? Maybe some kind reader would send him a postcard. Fabio leaped on the idea. Two weeks later, his plea for postcards appeared in Milan's weekly Domenica del Corrieri. The response was immediate. Bundles of postcards began arriving from all over Italy, France, Belgium and Switzerland. Others followed from Africa, Japan, Calcutta, Rio de Janeiro and even Union City, N.J. Some days brought more than 1,000 cards. Some people sent money, chocolates; one offered...