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The Painted Bird (Taschenbuch)

von Jerzy N. Kosinski (Autor) "I lived in Marta's hut, expecting my parents to come for me any day, any hour ..." (mehr)

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Taschenbuch: 234 Seiten
Verlag: Grove/Atlantic Inc; Auflage: 0002 (September 1995)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 080213422X
ISBN-13: 978-0802134226
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 20,8 x 13,7 x 2 cm

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Many writers have portrayed the cruelty people inflict upon each other in the name of war or ideology or garden-variety hate, but few books will surpass Kosinski's first novel, The Painted Bird, for the sheer creepiness in its savagery. The story follows an abandoned young boy who wanders alone through the frozen bogs and broken towns of Eastern Europe during and after World War II, trying to survive. His experiences and actions occur at and beyond the limits of what might be called humanity, but Kosinski never averts his eyes, nor allows us to.

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4.0 von 5 Sternen A Rural Portrait of the Holocaust, 25. Juli 2000

Von	S. DEMILLE "All Purpose Nerd" (N. Las Vegas, Nevada USA) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen (REAL NAME)

In The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski tells of the wanderings of a young boy during World War II. The boy, six years old, becomes the object of brutality and prejudice, all of which stems from a combination of peasant superstition and Nazi hatred. The peasants have no limit to their heartlessness: they beat the boy, molest him, and they nearly succeed in killing him-all for the color of his skin (just like Lekh's painted bird). In their minds the boy is nothing more than an ethnic curse to their village, one who could potentially incite the Germans to slaughter everyone within earshot. Just when the boy senses that the peasants will destroy him, he flees to the next village, and the whole process starts anew. In his wanderings he learns judgment and the ability to discern crescendos of violence.

The book is replete with gruesome images: bunkers filled with hungry rats that devour a living body with the efficiency of a school of piranhas; broken Jewish bodies moaning beside the train tracks; a dead woman melting under the heat of her burning shack. Death. The book is replete with it. In the midst of such desolation, the boy longs for stability and friendship and the confidence of trust. But he is disillusioned and betrayed each step of his journey, and the lessons of evil change him in ways he does not know.

The Painted Bird has torn me away from my cozy world and has shown me another sphere where people treat human life as though it is not human. The book is certainly gripping and a little disturbing; it has left in me an uncomfortable feeling that I cannot shake. I guess one hallmark of the successful book is its ability to do this.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen the HEART of darkness, 3. Mai 2000

Von	Bruce Kendall "BEK" (Southern Pines, NC) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen (REAL NAME)

My byline refers not only to the fact that both Conrad and Kosinski were Polish authors writing in English. There are also similarities in Marlowe's journey into the darkness of the Congo and Kosinski's young narrators' voyage through the surreal landscape of wartime Eastern Europe. Both investigate the darker regions of the human psyche. Both are the antithesis of a "picaresque" novel. Both are told from the point-of-view of a relatively innocent narrator, whose original naivete is transformed by the scenes he witnesses into an understanding of the "horror" and a comprehension of man's capacity for evil. I read The Painted Bird over 30 years ago and many of its images still remain vivid in my imagination. I will never forget the couple caught copulating (you'll have to read Kosinski's description yourself - I'm not going to go there) and the boy-narrator's harrowing account of being thrown into a pit of excrement. I'm a bit surprised, having taught high school English myself, that this would be recommended to a young reader, even though I read it when I was about sixteen. It definitely wasn't on my school's list of recommended reading. I don't agree with some reviewers here that the book is pornographic. Far from it. The sex depicted is hardly meant to arouse. Kosinski's later work might have fallen into that category (he did a lot of short-story writing for Playboy and Penthouse), but this is far too brutal a work to be anywhere near titillating. If you would like to take a harrowing walk into the heart of darkness, and are equipped to handle visions of one of the most depraved landscapes you are likely to encounter in literature, then this book's for you.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Warning: Not for the squemish, 19. Juli 2000

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This truly a brilliant book, no other author that I've ever read was able to capture the art of description like Kosinski. Though it will make you sick to your stomach and callenge you to question man's treatment of man, the things you will gain from the expierence will stay with you for a lifetime. I recomend all teenagers who have every question who they are or why they are here to read this book. Any adults who wander why the world is the way it is or who have never wander before should this book, because after reading it you'll never stop wandering. This book answers many question about the human soul and is a great experiment with the human phsyche. But for as many question it may answer, twice as many will be asked of the reader. It is a piece art the requires input as well as output. You become that little boy, you experienec horror, saddness, pain, loss of faith in God and in you own family. But it will also bring you to turns with mortality and let appreciate the good fortune you most likely expierence. I suggest you read this book and share it with you friends.

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4.0 von 5 Sternen a good luck at man's inhumanity to man
This is certainly not a pleasant book to read. Nothing very good happens to our 6 year old narrator as he goes from gypsy village to gypsy village and witnesses one thing more... Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 7. Juli 2000 von M. H. Bayliss

5.0 von 5 Sternen disturbingly beautiful
wow! the painted bird is the first book i have read that covers such a large spectrum of human emotion and ways society acts. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 21. Februar 2000 von deadsugar

5.0 von 5 Sternen Where is the movie?
I read this book 10 years ago, and I'm still waiting for the movie! Each chapter is another depressing short story about a boy who learns the hard way of mans selfishness during... Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 1. November 1999 ver�ffentlicht

1.0 von 5 Sternen Collection of pornographic short clips
This is a sad excuse for something to be taken seriously. If someone wanted to be jolted by man's insensitivity to man, "Night" by Weisel is of much more literary... Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 11. Oktober 1999 von Chris Fordyce (fordyce@avl.bfg...

5.0 von 5 Sternen Maybe the best novel never turned into a motion picture
Just allow me to add the The Painted Bird is possibly the best novel never turned into a motion picture. And why not? Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 5. September 1999 ver�ffentlicht

5.0 von 5 Sternen Holds a mirror up to life.
This is an unbelievably powerful book. And the reader should realize that things almost as bad, if not equally bad, happen right here in the USA.

Am 22. August 1999 ver�ffentlicht

5.0 von 5 Sternen amazing
aside from the gorish nature of the novel, which i do believe is a needed impact of the book to describe the nature of the people he has to deal with, i found this novel... Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 28. Mai 1999 ver�ffentlicht

5.0 von 5 Sternen Stare into the abyss without flinching...
As others have stated, this book is extremely harrowing in its depictions of brutality and violation. However, the atrocities we are forced to witness are never gratuitous. Lesen Sie weiter...

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Thanks, Mr. High!!!
This is quite possibly the most amazing book I've ever read. I read it, at the suggestion of my high school English teacher, during my senior year in high school after having... Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 1. M�rz 1999 ver�ffentlicht

5.0 von 5 Sternen Masterful, a fantastic work.
This book is so amazing it's hard to sum up its qualities in a few lines. It is enormously powerful and at the same time it is artful and accessable. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 25. Februar 1999 ver�ffentlicht

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