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Beautiful-Ugly,
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This review is from: Blind Date (Kosinski, Jerzy) (Paperback)
Sex, terrorism, incest, mass murder, betrayal, rape, prostitution. Somehow, Kosinski is able to show us the worst aspects of humanity and get us to completely accept them, even embrace them. The story is episodic. Through those episodes, Kosinski shows us something very like real life. It's more exciting than many people's lives, but there's no grand plan, no overreaching narrative arc. To paraphrase the Simpsons, it's just a bunch of stuff that happened, but it certainly was a very interesting read.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Anecdotes, Amusing & Otherwise.,
This review is from: Blind Date (Kosinski, Jerzy) (Paperback)
Kosinski's BLIND DATE is a collection of current events, flashbacks, & odd moments in the life of one George Leventer. Though some of the events are disturbing, they all manage to keep your attention. I kept wanting to read more about the life and times of this Russian photographer. Kosinski provides a fascinating look at one man's life, from his early childhood in the Soviet Union, to his years as a member of the international jet-set elite. The book's back-and-forth, non-linear style doesn't interfere at all with it's readability. In short, it's a modern classic!
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A superbly entertaining, uniquely original, hugely enjoyable, horrifically real, surrealy introspective, and wholely original novel about the worst of society, but portrayed so beautifully, it makes the novel enjoyable, and exciting. You can read the work and a single sitting, in fact, you barely want to put it down, George Levantar is Kosinski's Humbert Humbert, Raskolnikov, an anti-protagonist of his times (to call him a hero would be giving him to much credit, since his heroics are almost non existent). This episodic novel gives you a portrait of existence in the grattos and penthouses and the slums and impoverished, a portrait of the world that only a genius like Kosinski could show.If I were to go into the discrediting of the facts of whether or not he wrote his own books, it would be simple to say that the New York Times article proved that there was a unity of voice, and most people quoted by the Vanity Fair article said they were misquoted. Feel free to read the works of Kosinski knowing that you're reading the works of a man that had his own words, and his own thoughts--some very dark thoughts, but his own--and who was a great writer of literature.
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