Posted on 01/05/2006 6:34:23 AM PST by doc30
Well, considering the context of this thread, I will stay away from said book. The only thing in life to really disturb me is things that involved children.
Maybe, self-abortion attempt
They lived like Palestinians? Who knew!
That is amazing. On so many levels.
I have needles in my brain, salt in my eyes, and lye on my tingly bits.
I love a creative journalist. :o)
He's one lucky man.
"The needles didn't bother him physically, but they nagged at his mind."
Especially being rusty and all.
It would seem that an MRI would have been very dangerous for this fellow!
Kosinski wrote some odd tales.
.01 cm would be .004 in; that's possible through drawing steel; who knows?
This story isn't just odd, it is the most horrific thing I've ever read and it's autobiographical.
Bad mother... He lived and obviously she was able to take care of him. He's alive. "Mom" probably murdered his siblings too. If he gets to her grave, I hope he has time to unzip...
This was during WWII in Russia - probably one of the most brutal and harshest places to live at the time. Living under the hell of Stalinism while trying to survive Hitler's attacks. I don't condone what his mom did, but I can see the desparation and savageness of the times that could lead someone to do this.
Partially autobiographical. Kosinski also mixed fiction into his writings. Read "Blind Date".
Jerzy Kosinski[jr´zE kuzin´skE] Pronunciation Key, 1933–91, American writer, b. lOdz, Poland. He taught at the Univ. of lOdz before emigrating to the United States in 1957.
In his best-known novel, The Painted Bird (1965), the horrors of war and the violation of a human being are rendered in language of remarkable beauty. The novel depicts the nightmarish wanderings of a young boy among brutal peasants in a nameless country during World War II.
Kosinski's other novels include Steps (1968, National Book Award), Being There (1971), The Devil Tree (1973), Cockpit (1975), Passion Play (1978), and The Hermit of 69th Street (1988). For several decades the wittily urbane author was a literary, social, and media celebrity.
However, during the 1980s Kosinski was shaken by scandal as critics charged that other authors had helped him to write his books and that his supposed roman A clef, The Painted Bird, which had made his personal and literary reputation, was not remotely autobiographical. This discrediting may have been a factor in his suicide. Kosinski also wrote under the name Joseph Novak.
See Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography (1996) by J. Park Sloan.
http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/K/Kosinski.html
I've never read a book before or since where I would finish reading a paragraph and have to stop because of nausea. The scene with the retarded woman and the villagers is one I wish I could get out of my head.
LOL...maybe that explains something as I read some of his novels while still in middle school. Went through a Kosinski and Vonnegut phase while in 7-8 grade.
Don't look for meaning where there is none. So it goes.
The scene in the NFL playoffs against the Broncos with the retarded quaterback and the fumbling running back is one I wish I could get out of my head.
Sorry, couldn't resist poking fun at a Browns fan.
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