Word: tarden
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Dates: during 1975-1975
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...suggests Tarden, the protagonist of Jerzy Kosinski's Cockpit. If Tarden is indeed a creature from some other writer's galaxy, that author is manifestly Dostoyevsky. For like his predecessor, Kosinski explores the classic antinomies of rationality-and of experience that defeats reason and mocks humanity...
...Tarden is a predatory double agent now on the run from his American employers, known only as The Service. He has stolen enough to permit a life of ease. But there is no such word as leisure in the Tarden lexicon. A compulsive wanderer, he prowls the dry surfaces of the globe, uprooting lives and unearthing scandal. Half voyeur, half behavioral experimenter, he sees himself as a psychosexual conquistador, forever searching for-what? Even Tarden cannot...