The Painted Bird Book Quotes. Follow us to discover our latest finds! ‘the painted bird,” streaming as video on demand, is václav marhoul’s screen version—his remarkable vision—of the 1965 jerzy kosiński novel in which an unnamed boy makes his.
We saw soon afterwards how one bird after another would peel off in a fierce attack. (3 quotes) it seems that what i really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself. More about the painted bird.
The painted bird is a controversial 1965 novel by jerzy kosinski which describes world war ii as seen by a boy, considered a gypsy or jewish stray, wandering about small towns scattered around eastern europe.
The novel, based on kosinski's own experiences in poland during world war ii, centers on a young, unnamed boy's struggle to survive during the war by hiding in several remote villages in an eastern european country. There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which i always want to return. In 1963, while kosiński and his wife were in switzerland, they met a group of wealthy western europeans who’d fled their countries before world war ii. The book is largely metaphorical and deals with the brutality of human nature and how the horrors we perpetrate on each other become part of us.