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

Steps

Jerzy Kosiński

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 148 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 2961 Users | 236 Reviews

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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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Ratings: 3.79 From 2961 Users | 236 Reviews

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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

First Reading: I was totally unprepared for how enjoyable this book would be. Small glimpses and recounts of various immoral situations, often no longer than a page or two each, told in a unique and irresistable prose. An architect that designs concentration camps, discovering a rape barn, a mad scientist that pins condoms instead of badges on party members and sordid army games are just some of the many peverse pleasures contained within. Bless you vintage conemporaries.Second Reading: Still

I was rereading Steps by Jerzy Kosinski. It was night. I had recently asked a friend what he thought the book was really about. I told him that the author of the biography of Kosinski Id read had pointed out that in each section of the book, the narrator(s) either takes advantage of someone else or is taken advantage of. The memorable section involving the student who makes a map of public restrooms in a city, designating them as his temples, is perhaps an exception, but in this case it is the

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.

While I can see how my, I dunno, 12 to 15-year-old self thought that this was really coolas a virgin all of the sick/perverse sex was mysterious and the existentially alienated, detached narrators of the terse, unemotional prose and the violence were as alluring as a James Bond movie or some of those loner-based space exploration tales of adolescent science fiction. Im pretty amazed, however, at 50, to see that a grown man wrote this novel and that, judging from the glowing reviews splattered

Male, female, or intersex, you will hate this book.Remember back in the good old days when the whole country was sexually frustrated and guys who wanted to get laid wrote about how good their characters were in the sack, with the implicit understanding that it was they themselves (the authors) who knew a little more or had that special extra inch more in their pants than the next guy? Well, this book seems to be a remnant from that sad and pathetic era. Steps is an unqualified jerkoff book,