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Title: Jerzy Kosinski entre la farsa y la tragedia. (autor polaco de El pájaro pintado, autobiografía y novela de la Segunda Guerra Mundial)(TT: Jerzy Kosinski, between farse and tragedy) (TA: Author from Poland, of The Painted Bird, autobiography and novel of the Second World War)
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 4, 1996
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Issue: n1031Page: p60(2)

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Chapters: Jerzy Kosinski, Mark Rothko, Diane Arbus, Maggie Mcnamara, Will Cuppy, Phyllis Hyman, Reinaldo Arenas, Robert Quine, Dave Rubinstein, William Seabrook, René-Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet, Theresa Duncan, Susannah Mccorkle, Diana Barrymore, Philip Loeb, Lisa Howard, Seymour Krim, Ona Munson, William Lindsay Gresham, Beverly Kenney, Dorothy Uhnak, Helen Richey. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 138. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz (September 25, 1903 February 25, 1970), was a Latvian-born American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted the classification as an "abstract painter". Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz, Mark Rotkovich) was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Province, Russian Empire (now Daugavpils, Latvia). His father, Jacob Rothkowitz, was a pharmacist and an intellectual, who provided his children with a secular and political, rather than religious, upbringing. Unlike Jews in most cities of Czarist Russia, those in Dvinsk had been spared from violent outbreaks of anti-Semitic pogroms. However, in an environment where Jews were often blamed for many of the evils that befell Russia, Rothkos early childhood was plagued with fear. Despite Jacob Rothkowitz's modest income, the family was highly educated, and able to speak Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew. Following Jacob's return to Orthodox Judaism, he sent Marcus, his youngest son, to the cheder at age 5, where he studied the Talmud although his elder siblings had been educated in the public school system. Fearing that his sons were about to be drafted into the Czarist army, Jacob Rothkowitz emigrated from Russia to the United States, following the path of many other Jews who left Daugavpils in the wake of Cossack purges...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=127657 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jerzy Kosiński, born Józef Lewinkopf was an award-winning Polish-American novelist, and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N. He was known for various novels, among them The Painted Bird and Being There. Being There was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film in 1979. ... Read more

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Chapters: William Faulkner, Jerzy Kosinski, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Adrienne Rich, John Irving, Ralph Ellison, Walker Percy, Wallace Stevens, William Styron, Philip Roth, Tracy Kidder, Stanley Kunitz, John Cheever, Nelson Algren, John O'hara, Bernard Malamud, Robert Lowell, Wright Morris, Annette Gordon-Reed, William Gaddis, Denis Johnson, James Jones, Gloria Emerson, Gerald Stern, Kate Dicamillo, Linda Mccarriston, Mark Doty, William Bronk, Ha Jin, Ai, Nancy Farmer, Pete Dexter, Nathaniel Mackey, James Macgregor Burns, Keith Waldrop, J. F. Powers, Sam Tanenhaus, Tina Rosenberg, Tim Weiner, Timothy Egan, José Rubia Barcia, Eleanor Clark, the Auroras of Autumn. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 271. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 January 27, 2009 ) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and the novella "Rabbit Remembered") which chronicled the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to his death. Both Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit At Rest (1990) received the Pulitzer Prize. He published more than twenty novels and more than a dozen short story collections, as well as poetry, art criticism, literary criticism and children's books. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker, starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class", Updike was well recognized for his careful craftsmanship, his unique prose style, and his prolificity. He wrote on average a book a year. Updike populated his fiction with characters who ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15824 ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Jerzy (Nikodem) Kosinski, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 6462 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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