Jerzy Kosinski Livres

The book features insightful interviews with a renowned author known for impactful works like The Painted Bird, Steps, and Being There. Through these conversations, readers gain a deeper understanding of the author's creative process, thematic explorations, and personal experiences that shaped their writing. The discussions reveal the complexities of their characters and the significant social issues addressed in their narratives, offering a unique glimpse into the mind of a literary figure whose work has left a lasting mark on literature.

Jerzy Kosinski’s clever parable of a naive man thrust into the modern world is more pointed now than ever. Chance, the enigmatic gardener, becomes Chauncey Gardiner after getting hit by a limo belonging to a Wall Street tycoon. The whirlwind that follows brings Chance to his new status of political policy advisor and possible vice presidential candidate. His garden-variety political responses, inspired by television, become heralded as visionary, and he is soon a media icon due to his unknown background and vague, yet appealing, conversational nature. Being There was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, starring Peter Sellers as Chance, in 1979.

A young boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, wanders alone from one village to another in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.

Jerzy Kosinski is one of the most important and original writers of our times. Passing By serves as his legacy, a collection of writings that answers many questions about his work and offers a revealing and provocative self-portrait by an author whose life was shrouded in enigma.The man who emerges here has a passion for sport, a quirky sense of fun, an idiosyncratic range of acquaintances stretching from Pope John Paul II to Warren Beatty, and an abiding love of secrets, conundrums, and fantasies. But first and foremost, as he demonstrates in major essays on his novels The Painted Bird and Steps, Kosinski is a powerful, incomparable literary artist.

A portrayal of men and women both aroused and desensitized by an environment that disdains the individual and seeks control over the imagination.

Exploring the duality of wealth and existential emptiness, the story follows a privileged young man whose fascination with power conceals deeper vulnerabilities. The narrative weaves together themes of playfulness, violence, and moral ambiguity, reminiscent of both Camus's existentialism and the dark intrigue found in "The Talented Mr. Ripley." Through this complex character, the novel delves into the consequences of a life driven by status and the darker impulses that lie beneath a charming facade.