Kosinski: Hunted all over the world for a novel, he eventually committed suicide
The history of the twentieth century was extremely cruel, when memoirs and autobiographical novels in the history of post-war global literature emerged in an endless stream, and the witnesses and bystanders of the war were full of insight and understanding of this history.
However, due to the complexity of the world pattern, these perceptions and understandings will always be threatened, suppressed and even used by different camps for various purposes, and the right to speak is firmly in the hands of the official and media, resulting in these people not even being able to defend themselves and their own works.
One of them is The Painted Bird, which was voted "best foreign novel" by France, but suffered hardships elsewhere.
The book "The Stained Bird" tells the story of a Jewish boy who was sent by his parents to the countryside to escape the Nazi clutches during World War II, and during this time he experienced the story of the human world that was even more cruel than the war.
The title of the book comes from a plot in a story where a bird catches a bird, he applies colorful paint to the bird's body, and then releases the bird into the forest, but the bird can no longer be contained by the flock, they consider it to be "alien", the closer it moves to its kind, the more violently it will be attacked, and finally, it will be attacked and killed by the flock.
The author Kosinski uses this story as the name of the book, which also has a deep meaning, this "painted bird" is the protagonist of the book, that is, the little boy who was forced to separate from his parents during World War II, who wandered alone in the villages of Eastern Europe.
After surviving the clutches of the Nazis, he witnessed more of the darkness of life and the ugliness of human nature, and because of his incompatible complexion and eyes around him, he was considered "outlier" by everyone, they considered him an ominous symbol, and the closer he got to his kind, the deeper he would suffer, like the painted bird.
The book is told from a child's point of view, and the whole story is about murder, abuse and violence, and the whole story is cruel and repressive.
In 1956, "The Painted Bird" was published, which caused a sensation in the literary circles of various countries, and the French literary circles promulgated the "Best Foreign Novel Award" for the book, but the American literary circles were full of doubts and doubts, and many people in the literary circles were skeptical about whether the book came from Kosinski.
As a Pole, Kosinski also received a lot of hostility and targeting in Poland, even from the authorities, and in the preface, Kosinski was not even willing to say or write the word Poland, and whenever he mentioned Poland, he would replace it with "homeland" or "that country".
Kosinski wrote in a later article "How can it be possible to imprison imagination?" He said that after the publication of "The Painted Bird" in the United States and Western Europe and Eastern Europe, it triggered a great siege, and many media and magazines constantly attacked some passages in the novel, and these attacks were taken out of context, and these media attacked for the sake of attack, without reason or skill.
The Painted Bird was never published in Poland because the Polish authorities listed it as a banned book directly, and the authorities accused, "I was instructed by the U.S. government to write The Painted Bird for some ulterior political purpose." ”
Some publishers have even taken the blame out of context, saying that Kosinski's "The Painted Bird" was completed with funding from the U.S. government. The evidence is that the book is registered with the Library of Congress — but the fact is that every book published in the United States cites the Library of Congress book code.
In Europe, although Kosinski assured that the names and place names he used in the book were fictional, could not be linked to any reality, and did not insinuate any ethnic meaning, commentators in Eastern Europe lashed out at Kosinski.
They believe that he maliciously quoted the customs and characteristics associated with the region, smeared the entire region, scandalized their hometown, and believed that he deliberately incited popular sentiment, saying that Kosinski "has reached the point of brazenness." ”
It is also believed that Kosinski is maliciously slandering and smearing the image of the peasantry, "providing a cannonball" for the enemy to attack the country.
This is the case in the United States and Poland, where Kosinski says his work was also used in questions about the Soviet Union.
Some anti-Soviet periodicals plucked out paragraphs about soviet soldiers in Painted Birds, saying the book was an attempt to justify Soviet action in Eastern Europe.
When "The Painted Bird" was first published, Kosinski's mother in her sixties was discovered by a newspaper company, which published articles insulting Kosinski and his mother, accusing her of being the mother of a traitor, and inciting some fanatics to attack her.
Kosinski's friends informed him of the situation, and Kosinski mobilized all his forces to seek help and refuge from the international police and even international organizations, but with little gain, and the angry people grew more and more frantic, and they attacked Kosinski and his mother in all desperation, completely ignoring the truth and the statements of the parties concerned.
Kosinski's mother finally rested in peace, but her death was not taken care of, not even noticed by her friends, and the authorities did not allow any funeral notices.
Kosinski himself has been in a state of intimidation and intimidation, and in his Manhattan home, he was once blocked in a corner by two men and threatened with steel pipes.
The two vicious men called them to punish Kosinski, the author of The Painted Bird, for taunting their compatriots, and Kosinski had to pretend he wasn't Kosinski himself to escape.
When walking on the road, Kosinski was often recognized by passers-by, followed by insults and insults, and in the car, on the road, in the shops, and even at concerts, there were always people who used harsh and ugly words to speak harshly to Kosinski, and even some people tried to beat him in public.
Kosinski is also said to have been harassed by secret agents from the authorities.
Finally, in the midst of suspicion and accusations from almost all over the world, Kosinski was like a defiled bird, stumbling and scarred by the attacks of his kind, and with no way out, he chose to commit suicide at the age of fifty-seven.
