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Title	:	Steps
Author	:	Jerzy Kosiński
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 148 pages
Published	:	1969 by Bantam (first published 1968)
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. Novels. Literature

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1969 National Book Award winner.

Kosinski is probably best known for his novels The Painted Bird and Being There, which was made into a 1971 film starring Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine. But most critics agree that this book, Steps, is his best work. It's listed as a novel but it feels more like a collection of short stories, but even that doesn't describe it properly. David Foster Wallace called it "a collection of unbelievably creepy little allegorical tableaux done in a terse elegant voice that's like nothing else anywhere ever". I would describe it as a collection of anecdotal tales, each with it's own type of shock factor that is in some instances quite disturbing, and some of them as short as a paragraph. It's powerful writing, the kind that places it in a category of it's own, the kind one doesn't soon forget. Wallace compared it to Kafka's Fragments saying "it is better than anything else he ever did combined".

Kosinski took his own life in May 1991, he was 57.

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Original Title:	Steps
ISBN:	0552084212 (ISBN13: 9780552084215)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Fiction (1969)

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there is nothing in this for me, so i gave myself permission not to finish it. i gave it the benefit of the doubt for just under half its length. it's not even a novel, it's just disconnected vignets, in the style of anais nin, and written from a very ugly perspective. the dust jacket alluded to celine and kafka and conrad and nabakov. i see none of them here. it's more like brett easton ellis if he had written erotica. it's erotica for sociopaths.

Almost a perfect cross between Céline's Journey to the End of the Night and Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, complete with the mysterious (and creepy) protagonist and general misanthropy of the former, and the weird quasi-mystical (and, again, creepy) sexual encounters of the latter.Both of those, however, are a little self-indulgent. Journey is long and rambling and vitriolic, and Interviews, while not as long, goes on long digressions and gets mired in self-consciousness and

1969 National Book Award winner.Kosinski is probably best known for his novels The Painted Bird and Being There, which was made into a 1971 film starring Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine. But most critics agree that this book, Steps, is his best work. It's listed as a novel but it feels more like a collection of short stories, but even that doesn't describe it properly. David Foster Wallace called it "a collection of unbelievably creepy little allegorical tableaux done in a terse elegant voice

1969 National Book Award winner.Kosinski is probably best known for his novels The Painted Bird and Being There, which was made into a 1971 film starring Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine. But most critics agree that this book, Steps, is his best work. It's listed as a novel but it feels more like a collection of short stories, but even that doesn't describe it properly. David Foster Wallace called it "a collection of unbelievably creepy little allegorical tableaux done in a terse elegant voice

What a joy to be left alone at last, not having to care about what others say or how they look at you, or how you seem to them, without having to look outside the white walls of your private sanctuary.Through a series of short stories and fragments of conversations Steps deprives the human nature of any morality and pushes it to the limit, analyzing the darkest instincts of the human being in the form of vengeance, hypocrisy, cruelty, cowardice, blackmail and murder. It is also said to be an

Do you remember the game "Where's Waldo?" You can play a similar one with this (47 maybe--If I'm remembering correctly) episodic narrative: "Where's the act of consumption?"Note: many of the vignettes are either sexual or violent, or violently sexual. The protagonist is on a quest to find a stable sense of identity in his (post)modern world. The question then becomes whether he succeeds or not.