Pocket Books 77176 - Jerzy Kosinski - The Painted Bird (with back)
Jerzy Kosinski - The Painted Bird
Pocket Books 77176, 1970
Cover Artist: uncredited... Leo and Diane Dillon ? Tom Adams ?
Still one of my favourite books, despite all the controversy:
An article in the Village Voice alleged that the stories in “The Painted Bird” were inconsistent and, perhaps, merely imaginary. It gradually emerged that Kosinski had not spent the war alone and at the mercy of Polish peasants; he and his parents went into hiding, living as Christians under assumed names. Furthermore, the exposé accused him of employing assistants to help him write the novel and his other books. Sworn to secrecy, uncredited, and sometimes unpaid, the assistants claimed to have translated chapters of “The Painted Bird” from Kosinski’s Polish original and even to have rewritten the bulk of his later manuscripts. Kosinski denied these claims, but he never recovered his prestige. In 1991, he killed himself, and many attributed his suicide to the decline of his reputation and career.
Pocket Books 77176 - Jerzy Kosinski - The Painted Bird (with back)
Jerzy Kosinski - The Painted Bird
Pocket Books 77176, 1970
Cover Artist: uncredited... Leo and Diane Dillon ? Tom Adams ?
Still one of my favourite books, despite all the controversy:
An article in the Village Voice alleged that the stories in “The Painted Bird” were inconsistent and, perhaps, merely imaginary. It gradually emerged that Kosinski had not spent the war alone and at the mercy of Polish peasants; he and his parents went into hiding, living as Christians under assumed names. Furthermore, the exposé accused him of employing assistants to help him write the novel and his other books. Sworn to secrecy, uncredited, and sometimes unpaid, the assistants claimed to have translated chapters of “The Painted Bird” from Kosinski’s Polish original and even to have rewritten the bulk of his later manuscripts. Kosinski denied these claims, but he never recovered his prestige. In 1991, he killed himself, and many attributed his suicide to the decline of his reputation and career.