Passing By : Selected Essays, 1962-1991
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
eBook, English, 2007
Grove/Atlantic, Inc., [Place of publication not identified], 2007
1 online resource
9780802195791, 0802195792
948038976
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Reflections on life and Death; Aleksander and AndrÉ Wat; Time to Spare; Death in Cannes; LIFE AND ART; On Books; To Touch Minds; The Reality behind Words; Where an Author can be himself; Our "Predigested, Prepackaged Pop Culture"; To Hold a Pen; A Sense of Place; My Twenty-Minute Performance . . .; On Journalists: Combining Objective Data with Subjective Attitudes; ARTISTS AND EYE; On Sculpture: Sculptorids of Rhonda Roland Shearer; Photography as Art; On Film and Literature; THE SPORTY SELF How I Learned to Levitate in WaterCrans-Montana
the Open Resort; Horses; A Passion for Polo; TALK OF NEW YORK; New York: the Literary Autofocus; Key to New York; Time Machine; Short Takes; Being Here; PEOPLE, PLACES AND ME; Charisma Camouflages Mortality; Solzhenitsyn: the Disenchanted Pilgrim; A Message to the Chamber from Jerzy Kosinski; A Brave Man, This Beatty. Brave as John Reed ... ; Egypt, Polo and the Perplexed I; A Plea to Khomeini from an Author Whose Work Also Has Offended; SELF VS. COLLECTIVE; Gog and Magog: On Watching Tv; Tv as Baby-Sitter; Against Book Censorship Dead Souls on CampusThe Banned Book as Psychological Drug
a Parody?; JEWISH PRESENCE; No Religion is an Island; God & . . .; Jews in the Soviet Union; Hosanna to What?; Restoring a Polish-Jewish Soul; Speaking for My Self; TIME OF LIFE, TIME OF ART; Afterward: The Painted Bird Tenth Anniversary Edition (1976); Notes of the Author on the Painted Bird; The Art of the Self: Essays À Propos Steps; AFTERWORDS; Disguises; On Death; Sources; About the Author; Footnotes; Chapter 01_fn01; Chapter 03; Chapter 03_Fn01; Chapter 03_Fn02; Chapter 10; Chapter 10_Fn01; Chapter 13; Chapter 13_Fn01 Chapter 13_Fn02Chapter 36; Chapter 36_Fn01; Chapter 36_Fn02; Chapter 36_Fn03; Chapter 43; Chapter 43_Fn01; Chapter 43_Fn02; Chapter 43_Fn03; Chapter 43_Fn04; Chapter 43_Fn05; Chapter 43_Fn06; Chapter 43_Fn07; Chapter 43_Fn08; Chapter 44_fn01; Chapter 44_Fn01; Chapter 45; Chapter 45_Fn01
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