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Flight into Egypt, novelist George Tabori's first play, is a tense, emotional drama of Viennese expatriates stranded in Cairo. It is a tragedy of a broken nation, and it is the tragedy of one family trapped at the crossroads between nations. Mr. Tabori is clearly more interested in the second problem, and the play becomes a slow-moving, though extremely intense, psychological study of the Engel family and its efforts to obtain passage for America...
...write novels in the international manner, as Andre Malraux and Arthur Koestler do, a novelist needs to have been around. Geographically, at least, George Tabori has the qualifications. He was born in Hungary, became a British subject after many travels, now lives in France. His best book was a political novel about Italy (Companions of the Left Hand) ; another was a psycho-thriller, set in Egypt (Original Sin), which was chiefly notable for the longest dust storm in modern 1't-erature. This time, Tabori has written a perspiring little novel about Arabia, and garnished it with murder, intrigue...
Tragedy of the Liberal? At this point, where he might have slapped his story shut with a bang, Novelist Tabori gives it a twisting curve; he adds a long Part Two describing an unlabeled Arabian revolutionary movement which has been fighting to overthrow the governor. The epilogue has little to do with the bulk of the novel, and it raises the disconcerting suspicion that Tabori meant Dr. Varga's story as some sort of significant parable. This suspicion is confirmed by the dust jacket, whereon the author calls his story "a comment on the tragedy of the liberal...
ORIGINAL SIN (195 pp.)-George Tabori-Houghfon Mifflin...
Gifted Hungarian-born George Tabori, whose Companions of the Left Hand was one of last year's most singular and striking novels (TIME, June 24, 1946), seems to have written this psycho-thriller with his left foot. A khamseen howls for days in Cairo, wearing tempers thin as the hot, gritty sand seeps through the doors and windows of the Pension Malika Farida. On the fifth morning of the storm, Adela Manasse, wife of the pension's proprietor, is found dead in her tub, naked and smiling a "kindly" smile...