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Title	:	The Painted Bird
Author	:	Jerzy Kosiński
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 234 pages
Published	:	August 9th 1995 by Grove Press (first published 1965)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. War. Literature. World War II. Holocaust. Horror

The Painted Bird

Jerzy Kosiński

Paperback | Pages: 234 pages

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Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. Called by the Los Angeles Times "one of the most imposing novels of the decade," it was eventually translated into more than thirty languages. A harrowing story that follows the wanderings of a boy abandoned by his parents during World War II, The Painted Bird is a dark novel that examines the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love. It is the first, and the most famous, novel by a writer who is now discredited.

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Original Title:	The Painted Bird
ISBN:	080213422X (ISBN13: 9780802134226)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Essai (1966)

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Malowany Ptak = The Painted Bird, Jerzy KosińskiThe Painted Bird is a 1965 novel, by Jerzy Kosiński, which describes: World War II, as seen by a boy, considered a "Gypsy or Jewish stray," wandering about small villages scattered around an unspecified country in Eastern Europe. The story begins by introducing the war and linking it with the boy. The young boy's parents are hiding from the Germans, and he lives in a village, with an elderly woman. When the woman dies, he is left to care for

Reading this one is like opening an oven door and the WHITE HOT BLAST OF HATRED from every page sears your flesh, scars your brain, and when you finish it you cram it shut with relief and throw it quickly into a box marked Charity although giving this to anyone would not be any kind of charitable act unless they need something to keep the fire going. What kind of a shitstorm do we have here? For some reason I thought this was the story of a kid caught up in the Holocaust, i.e. a ghetto and

Senryu Review:A wartime childhoodof persecution and painin fable-like prose.

The undiminished, unending nightmarish brutality of this novel might become an exercise in repetition and gratuity, were it not for undiminished horror contained in its subjects, taken both narrowly (the holocaust) and more broadly (the bottomless capacity of humans to inflict atrocities upon other humans). Early phantasmagoric and folkloric aspects and presentation as a series of episodic 'fables' creates an expectation of the hope/fear rhythms of a fairytale, but the first side of that

The officer surveyed me sharply. I felt like a squashed caterpillar oozing in the dust, a creature that could not harm anyone yet aroused loathing and disgust. In the presence of such a resplendent being, armed in all the symbols of might and majesty, I was genuinely ashamed of my appearance. I had nothing against his killing me.Much as Nietzsche detonated a shaped charge and blew away all hope of a totalizing meta-narrative, it was books like The Painted Bird which left me ashamed, almost

After reading some of the reviews on here, I'm hoping that this will bring some sanity to the steaming heaps of hyperbole. Comparisons to the Saw films, torture porn, and complaints that the violence was simply all too gratuitous are the backbone of reviews that completely miss the point and should be dismissed out of hand. "The purpose of a picaresque narrative is to present to the reader a picture of society and societal involvement that one would otherwise rather ignore, not all truths being

It was clear from the beginning this story was not going to be on the light side, and being a reader who typically tends toward darker material, that did not deter me in any way from launching into this book. Not even sure from whence it came, but it has been languishing in one of our bookcases for years. I almost wish I had left it there, unread. At my age, I am well aware of the inequities of life. The atrocities seen by and committed to the little boy in the book are almost continual, before