"The Stained Bird", the painted bird flew to the same kind, but was pecked to death as an alien

This is a book dipped in blood and tears. Kosinski wrote the novel based on his childhood tragic experiences and what he saw and heard in Eastern Europe under Nazi Germany, recreating the nightmare of world war II. In this book, violence, abuse, rape, castration, killing, genocide, religious persecution, and so on are all exposed in an unparalleled way. After reading it, we were shocked and even more incredible. But the author swears by his conscience as a survivor that everything his first-person novel says is true.

Born in Poland, the author, Kosinski, like the protagonist in the book, was sent by his parents to refuge in the distant, backward countryside shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, and from then on he began a wandering and miserable life at a young age. Indeed, as written in the book, he was mute by abuse and regained the ability to speak after a skiing accident after the war. Except for him and his parents, his other family members were all killed by the war. As people living in times of peace, we are not qualified to question the suffering of survivors of war, especially in the limited capacity to imagine and understand suffering.

Published in the United States in 1965, the book caused a sensation when it came out, winning the French "Best Foreign Novel" award in the same year, printing and distributing 3,000,000 copies from 1965 to 1972, and reprinting 13 times from its inception to 1981.

— Preface: Testimony to Suffering, Mo Yaping

1. An old woman who bathes only once a year becomes my adoptive mother. She didn't dare smile at me or drink water in front of me, for fear that I would count her teeth and break her life.

2, I was beaten in a sack by the old witch said that my black eyes are evil eyes. I was "planted" in the soil like a cabbage ball, with only my head exposed.

3) I escaped death and captured a "comet". In the forest I saw ghouls.

4. The jealous miller easily gouges out the hired man's eyes. I found that my eyes were like apples hanging from branches, and the wind would fall as soon as it blew. I walked more carefully, afraid of falling to the ground and causing my eyes to fall to the ground.

5. The colored bird flies to its kind but is pecked to death by the same kind as an alien. Rudmina was gang-raped and maimed to death.

6 The carpenters believed that my black hair could bring lightning. I was driven into the wild on thunderstorm night. To survive I used a trick to make the carpenter fall into the rat's den. The carpenter is eaten into a skeleton by rats.

7. The blacksmith eats a mixture of fleas, horse bones, spiders, human feces, human urine and cat droppings to cure diseases. The White Army beat and humiliated the blacksmith couple and their employees.

8) I witnessed a murder. The bodies of the deceased were brought to heal and no one traced the killer. The murderer stomped on the blood stains at the murder scene and chewed wildly, as if nothing had happened.

9. The Jews were taken by the Germans to gas execution chambers and crematoria. Peasant women snatched the shoes of the dying Jewish children. A wounded Jewish girl was raped to death.

10 I witnessed a Jewish man being shot and killed indiscriminately. The skull hat of a German officer really calls me admirable.

11. Capos did everything in his power to torment me. I used spells to evil kampospo. I prayed to God day and night to change my destiny. I was thrown into a dung pit by Christians and made dumb.

12) Sex games with Yucca gave me an instinctive pleasure. The incestuous, depraved life of the Makar family destroyed something inside me. I was thrust into the devil's pen.

13, I got lost on the vast snowy plains. I resisted the humiliation of several boys and was thrown into the ice cave.

14 Labina's animal-like love for the farmer makes me disappointed and disgusted. The sorrow and joy of the wandering beautiful man Raba. The tie used by the hanger became my amulet.

15, Kalmek soldiers strong new women, castrate a farmer ... The victories and good deeds of the Red Army negated my faith in the devil.

16. The soldiers of the Red Army healed my wounds, guided me to read novels and poems, and told me the truth of life. The warmth of reality made me fall in love with the Red Army and Stalin. The cause of the Red Army gives me hope, but its profundity confuses me.

17. Sharpshooter Mitka became my friend. I helped him avenge the soldiers who were hacked to death by the brutal farmers.

18 I entered a homeless shelter full of murder machines. To show my courage I lay down between the tracks and let the train roar past my body. In revenge we derailed a train, but innocent people died.

19 The strange middle-aged man and woman turned out to be my parents. I was afraid that my parents would become my cage. I avenged the abuse I suffered in the cinema. In the underground society my dumbness became a fortune.

20 People are separated by valleys like mountain peaks. One ski accident was when my voice found me again.