Jan Peczkis: Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, by James Parker Sloan. 1996.
Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, by James Parker Sloan. 1996.
Reviewer: Mr. Jan Peczkis
The Widely-Read and Highly-Acclaimed Jerzy Kosinski vel Lewinkopf's PAINTED BIRD: A
Rescued Polish Jew Who Expressed His Gratitude By Slandering His Rescuers. His Peasants-Are-Evil Mendacity Lives on in the Recent Media-Touted Pronouncements of Jan T. Gross, Jan Grabowski, and Barbara Engelking
This book surveys Kosinski's early life, his new life in the US, his travels, his celebrity status, his sexual libertinism, and his suicide. That latter is portrayed as a well-planned event.
ONCE AGAIN, TELLING LIES FOR A BETTER ANTI-POLISH STORY
Author James Sloan comments: "Only Kosinski knew that the peasants he had encountered, while certainly no angels, had been nothing like the villains depicted in his novel." (p. 421). The incident about the altar-boy Kosinski being thrown into a pit of excrement, for accidentally dropping a missal, is admittedly fictional. (p. 36). For more on the specifics of Kosinski's mendacity, read the detailed English-language Peczkis review of Czarny ptasior (THE UGLY BLACK BIRD).
JOINING THE ZYDOKOMUNA: "YOU KNEW I WAS A SNAKE"