One smirks amusedly and bemusedly at these works as the artifacts of an interesting life. What Kosinski once fobbed off as his own creation is now surrounded by an embarrassed silence. Indeed, this very signature preempts any of “Kosinski’s books” from being taken seriously. His authorship has long since been discredited as fraudulent all of the writings to which he gave his signature have been dismissed as the trickery of a confidence trickster. Jerzy Kosinski did not write his books alone.
"In Novels and Life, a Maverick and an Eccentric". ^ "1969 National Book Awards Winners and Finalists".^ "Kroki - Jerzy Kosiński" (in Polish).novels", describing it as a "collection of unbelievably creepy little allegorical tableaux done in a terse elegant voice that's like nothing else anywhere ever." He further praised that "only Kafka's fragments get anywhere close to where Kosinski goes in this book, which is better than everything else he ever did combined." Release history Year Īmerican novelist David Foster Wallace in 1999 named Steps one of "five direly underappreciated U.S. Again, the book was rejected, also by Random House, having not been recognized, despite being an award-winning work. In 1977, Ross sent out the entire book to ten publishers, including Random House, which had originally published the book, and thirteen literary agents.
In 1975, a freelance writer Chuck Ross, in order to prove his theory that unknown authors always find their books rejected, sent out excerpts from Steps to four different publishers, using the pseudonym Erik Demos. Canadian critic Hugh Kenner in his review of Steps in The New York Times compared it to the works by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Franz Kafka. Steps contains remarkable autobiographical elements and numerous references to World War II.ĭespite its commercial failure, especially when compared to The Painted Bird, Steps met with generally positive critics' reviews and eventually won the U.S. The book has been interpreted as being about "a Polish man's difficulties under the harsh Soviet regime at home played against his experiences as a new immigrant to the United States and its bizarre codes of capitalism." The stories reflect upon control, power, domination and alienation, depicting scenes full of brutality or sexually explicit. The book does not name any characters or places where described situations take place.
Steps consists of a series of short stories, reminiscences, anecdotes and dialogues, loosely linked to each other or having no connection at all, written in the first person.
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