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BEING THERE by Jerzy Kosinski. 142 pages. Harcourf Brace Jovanovich...
...first novels have been embraced with such praise and sympathy as Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird-a taut, savage story of a stray city boy's brutalization by Middle European peasants during World War II. Three years after it was published in 1965, Kosinski won the National Book Award for Steps, a montage of violent and sadistic episodes perceived with an almost fetishistic precision. Being There is a change of pace, a tantalizing knuckle ball of a book delivered with perfectly timed satirical hops and metaphysical flutters...
...particularly sympathetic figure. He is in the Establishment, yet out of it; he has dipped into a dozen different fields, yet is tied to none. He possesses both passionate interest and a kind of cool grace. "He is their ultimate vision of the writer," says Polish-born Novelist Jerzy Kosinski (The Painted Bird), one of George's countless literary friends. "To them he comes closest to the American conception of what a writer ought to be-that he should not just live off the imagination, like Proust, but should re-create an ideal search for experience...
STEPS, by Jerzy Kosinski. Acts of cruelty and voyeurism unfold in a series of episodes that are bound together by the author's private vision of inhumanity...
STEPS, by Jerzy Kosinski. In his second novel, the author of The Painted Bird coolly describes a series of acts of voyeurism, cruelty and revenge that combine to form a shocking picture of a pathological mind...