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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: E who wrote (45953)7/18/1999 6:52:00 PM
From: Edwarda  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Kosinski was a liar and a thief. Well, so was Genet.

I read The Painted Bird as a work of fiction; I had not heard the "buzz" that it was autobiographical until later. Remember, ages ago I posted about reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich as an adolescent? I regarded it when I read it--in fits and starts because it made me feel ill--as fiction that depicted the agony that Shirer suggested.

Were they hoodwinked? I don't know. I dealt with it purely as a work of fiction, before the "leakage" that this book was autobiographical and I found it moving and shocking as a work of fiction. It said, people are capable of doing this kind of violence to one another--which I had already discovered--and I kept on reading, despite being physically sick at times--because I think it is desperately important for "civilized" people to know what they eventually confront.
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