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Page 82
... close Kosinski was to the wartime horrors of The Painted Bird or the transitional agonies of Steps , although the themes of those novels , of Being There , and of his latest work , The Devil Tree ( 1973 ) , center philosophically on ...
... close Kosinski was to the wartime horrors of The Painted Bird or the transitional agonies of Steps , although the themes of those novels , of Being There , and of his latest work , The Devil Tree ( 1973 ) , center philosophically on ...
Page 84
... close to starvation , taking menial jobs while developing a fa- cility with his adopted language , in order to write sociology and fic- tion about his former experiences . But a close autobiographical reading of these works disregards ...
... close to starvation , taking menial jobs while developing a fa- cility with his adopted language , in order to write sociology and fic- tion about his former experiences . But a close autobiographical reading of these works disregards ...
Page 170
... close to the truth , as Heller and Burroughs and Pynchon were joined in the critical lime- light by such celebrants of unreason , chaos , and inexorable decay as Kurt Vonnegut , Jr. , John Barth , Rudolph Wurlitzer , Donald Bar- thelme ...
... close to the truth , as Heller and Burroughs and Pynchon were joined in the critical lime- light by such celebrants of unreason , chaos , and inexorable decay as Kurt Vonnegut , Jr. , John Barth , Rudolph Wurlitzer , Donald Bar- thelme ...
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