For the film adaptation, see The Painted Bird (film).
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The Painted Bird
First edition cover
Author
Jerzy Kosiński
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
War novel
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Publication date
1965
Media type
Print (hardcover and paperback)
OCLC
32548195
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 20
LC Class
PS3561.O8 P3 1995
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The Painted Bird is a 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosiński that describes World War II as seen by a boy, considered a "Gypsy or Jewish stray,"[1] wandering about small villages scattered around an unspecified country in Central and Eastern Europe (usually assumed to be Poland).
The story was originally described by Kosiński as autobiographical, but upon its publication by Houghton Mifflin he announced that it was a purely fictional account, although it was generally assumed [by whom?] that it was based on the author's experiences during World War II. The depicted events are now widely known to be fictional, having been the subject of a 1993 journalistic exposé (The Ugly Black Bird). The book has been for many years seen as an essential part of the literary Holocaust canon; however since it has been proven to be a work of fiction, it has lost much of its popularity.
The book describes the wandering boy's encounters with peasants engaged in all forms of sexual and social deviance such as incest, bestiality, and rape, and in other forms of extreme violence and lust. The book's title was drawn from an incident in the story. The boy, while in the company of a professional bird catcher, observes how the man took one of his captured birds and painted it several colors. Then he released the bird to fly in search of a flock of its kin, but when the painted bird came upon the flock, they saw it as an intruder and viciously attacked the bird until it fell from the sky.
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