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Saturday, 19 December 2020

Steps - Jerzy Kosinski

 A collection of short texts with little or no connections.  Like fragments.  You can see the themes I saw in the film version of his book, Painted Birds - sadistic violence, violent sex, anger and resentment,  revenge.  He writes well but the whole things seems like voyeurism or thrill seeking by the comfortable and well-off.  Jean Genet, on the other hand, is the real thing (though his popularity is this same kind of voyeurism on the part of his readers).

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