Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1952 — Page 18

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TIMES Collection of Fresh

Ghost Stories From ‘The Pen of Goyen

GHOST AND FLESH. By William Goyen. New York, Random House, $2.75.

By EMERSON PRICE |new and always individual and-— William Goyen, whose first/to me at least—they. mark the hovel HOUSE OF BREATH, was author as a writer of considerable «Widely acclaimed, is now the Stature.

author of a collection of short §lgves’ Problems stories that are in every sense What “happened to the “Amer

original and genuinely fascinating. ican slaves immediately after Title of the volume is GHOST }0ir emancipation in.the South?

AND FLESH. a : | What were their problems and The stories are well described how-did they meet them? Their by the title, for they have a haunt-| problems, indeed, were quite ing quality to which the reader severe. Illiterate and inexperireadily submits. And the ghosts? enced, the newly freed men enWell, for the most part, they are|tered a free society to face new the ghosts of the past which have tensions, disease and new habits carried Goyen's characters into|to which they were not accusthe present, infecting the memory tomed.

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sometimes with vague sadness Henderson H. Donald covers and regret, and at other times the years immediately after with broad humor. emancipation in an absorbing In many of the tales, Goyen has And valuable book titled THE made use of the vernacular with NEGRO FREEDMAN (Henry such skill that his curious prose Schuman, $4). The reader who completes this interesting book

resembles poetry. And the work 4s a whole has some vague relation to folk tales, or to the halfforgotten traditions associated with individual families. If you read the first story, “The New Du Maurier White Rooster,” you are likely to| Daphne du Mauriet’ continue throughout the book, re- My COUSIN RACHEL (Double. gretting only that it contains but day, $3.50), is not likely to want seven others. In this tale, an old|for readers. It is the story of a man sees so much of himself in| strange and complex woman-— the habits of a bedraggled and| Countess Rachel Sangalletti--and homeless white rooster that his|of two cousins who loved her. | final act on earth is to commit a|One of the cousins marries her| murder to save its life. {and dies mysteriously. Letters In another tale, a woman whose Written before his death seem. to sanity has been impaired belleves implicate the countess. that her two companions in an| The remainder of the story is old house — one her sister — are concerned with the love affajr—| ghosts. A rather long tale, the or perhaps it would be best to author finally describes the death say mutual fascination—of the of each woman and the eerie/surviving cousin and the countsilence of the old home after(ess. The novel has a somewhat their deaths, It is really a ghost- somber ending, but you will have ly yarn. to determine for yourself whether Yet this tells you little of these she was guilty of crime. remarkable stories. .They are in| Nn . every sense unusual, and I have biferature Digest encountered nothing like them| Many types of readers will find

will understand anew that with a reasonable measure of opportunity the human spirit can survive almost any obstacle,

tes woo ory Lady With A Vengeance

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