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Kosinski, Jerzy (1933-1991)
Polish-born popular American author of two sociological studies and nine novels, survivor of the Holocaust, husband of the heiress to the U.S. Steel fortune, avid sportsman...
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When Jerzy Kosinski's novel The Painted Bird was published on 15 October 1965, The New York Times editors assigned the review to Elie Wiesel, the best-known Holocaust writer in America. Wiesel was imp...
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Jerzy N. Kosinski, novelist and essayist, was born on 14 June 1933 in Lodz, Poland, the son of Russian parents Mieczyslaw and Elzbieta. At the age of six, he was separated from his parents and wandere...
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Critical Essay by Gerald Barrett
Kosinski's novels consist of many … episodes, self-enclosed stories that reflect two of the novel's most traditional interests, the telling of int...
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Critical Essay by Lee T. Lemon
Because Jerzy Kosinski has given us several important novels, the temptation is to talk about Cockpit as if it were significant. I could say all the things that other re...
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Critical Essay by William Plummer
Jerzy Kosinski's second novel, Steps (1968), is made up of a series of vignettes set in Poland during and after WWII, and in "the West." Always t...
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Critical Essay by Anatole Broyard
Jerzy Kosinski calls George Levanter, the hero of his novel "Blind Date," a "small investor." But to me he is more like a claims adjuster ...
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Critical Essay by Tom Paulin
Kosinski's fantasy world is a place of such barren superficiality and murderous frustration that it often reads like the case-history of a vindictive neurotic. For ...
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Critical Essay by Peter Ackroyd
There are certain great moments in fiction, when the vast mists of the world suddenly part; Blind Date has one of them: 'Levanter could not speak. Mute, dispirit...
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Critical Essay by Xana Kaysen
I have been mulling over the sense of dreariness [Kosinski] provokes—a dreariness quite separate from that conjured up by his venomous outlook on life. He presents...
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Critical Essay by Krystyna Prendowska
Jerzy Kosinski's novels lie in the area between the post-war European emotional lucidity and the hip coolness of American mid-generation. His is a non-judg...
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Critical Essay by Hans Koning
The heroes of [Kosinski's] novels are lonely and anonymous men, outsiders, never with an everyday profession. In Blind Date, the hero was called Levanter; in Passi...
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Critical Essay by William Kennedy
Jerzy Kosinski takes on some new subject matter—polo, horsemanship and public sex—in his seventh novel, Passion Play, yet these things are not really hi...
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Critical Essay by Ivan Gold
["Passion Play" gives] Kosinski the opportunity to engage in some virtuoso writing about sex and horsemanship, which is sometimes fun to read. He is very good...
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Critical Essay by Alan Cheuse
[Passion Play] displays a familiar mixture: a protagonist whose life is a series of disconnected steps leading nowhere, women who are more vagina than mind, existential m...
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Kosinski, Jerzy (1933-1991)
Jerzy (Nikodem) Kosinski
Critical Essay by Gerald Barrett
