Literary Disruptions: The Making of a Post-contemporary American Fiction |
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Page 87
... Painted Bird is rather the result of the slow unfreezing of a mind long gripped by fear , of isolated facts that ... Painted Bird , Kosinski completes the transition from his earlier works . " The story of the boy , the Painted Bird of ...
... Painted Bird is rather the result of the slow unfreezing of a mind long gripped by fear , of isolated facts that ... Painted Bird , Kosinski completes the transition from his earlier works . " The story of the boy , the Painted Bird of ...
Page 88
... Painted Bird . 13 The Painted Bird , of course , tells its own story , but survival is its recurrent theme . The adventures of the Boy narrator span World War II , most of it spent wandering from village to village as a " Gypsy - Jewish ...
... Painted Bird . 13 The Painted Bird , of course , tells its own story , but survival is its recurrent theme . The adventures of the Boy narrator span World War II , most of it spent wandering from village to village as a " Gypsy - Jewish ...
Page 91
... Painted Bird . The author's point here is that the self , in any society , must resort to hate and revenge to survive . Even within his beloved Red army the Boy's hero is not Stalin or Lenin , or even Gavrila , who teaches him politics ...
... Painted Bird . The author's point here is that the self , in any society , must resort to hate and revenge to survive . Even within his beloved Red army the Boy's hero is not Stalin or Lenin , or even Gavrila , who teaches him politics ...
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