Critical essays on Jerzy Kosinski

Journal/Book: Critical essays on American literature. 1998; New York London. G.K. Hall ; Prentice Hall International. xv, 300.

Note: 97045948 edited by Barbara Tepa Lupack. Includes bibliographical references and index. Reviews. The painted bird. Everybody's victim / Elie Wiesel ; Poor boy spreads his wings / Anne Halley ; [Review of] The painted bird / Robert Coles -- Steps. Keys on a ring / Hugh Kenner ; Out of the fires / Stanley Kauffmann ; A moralist's journey into the heart of darkness / Martin Tucker -- Being there. Jerzy Kosinski : on still being there / William Kennedy ; The fabrication of a culture hero / John W. Aldridge -- The devil tree. Pulp-fiction style, pop-psychology jargon, and a genuinely sadistic imagination / Robert Alter ; Last brave wish to try everything / Geoffrey Wolff ; New tree, old roots [review of revised and expanded The devil tree / Barbara Tepa Lupack -- Cockpit. Jerzy Kosinski working out past imperfections / Jonathan Baumbach ; [Review of] Cockpit / Ivan Sanders -- Blind date. Love and death in New Jersey / Arnost Lustig ; [Review of] Blind date / Daniel J. Cahill -- Passion play. The aging Kosinski knight, questing on the polo field / Jerome Klinkowitz ; Kosinski's hero rides on / William Lennedy ; When going is the goal / Stefan Kanfer -- Pinball. Grand Guignol with music / Benjamin DeMott ; Trebles / Stefan Kanfer -- The hermit of 69th Street. The annotated "Roman à tease" / John Calvin Batchelor ; Kosinski's mask behind the mask / Larry McCaffery -- Interview. The psychological novelist as portable man / Gail Sheehy -- Essay and articles. Jerzy Kosinski : retreat from violence / Daniel J. Cahill -- Jerzy Kosinski : the painted bird and other disguises / Gerald Weales -- Horatio Algers of the nightmare / Elizabeth Stone -- The romance of terror and Jerzy Kosinski : Cockpit / Jack Hicks -- Blind date : the resurgence of relationships / Paul Bruss -- Vision and violence in the fiction of Jerzy Kosinski / Paul R. Lilly Jr. -- Betrayed by Jerzy Kosinski / Jerome Klinkowitz -- Chance encounters : bringing Being there to the screen / Barbara Tepa Lupack -- The Kosinski conundrum / Stephen Schiff -- Kosinski's war / James Park Sloan -- Original essays. Cockpit, Blind date, and Passion play : Kosinski's novel cycle / Norman Lavers -- Is there any history in it? : the fiction of Jerzy Kosinski / Thomas S. Gladsky -- Jerzy Kosinski in fact : a master fabricator's nonfiction / Jerome Klinkowitz.

Keyword(s): Kosinski, Jerzy N., 1933- Criticism and interpretation.

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