Jerzy Kosinski's Steps: The Vanishing Staircase
| dc.contributor.author | Fukuchi, Curtis | |
| dc.contributor.department | English | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-15T19:44:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-01-15T19:44:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-01-15 | |
| dc.description.abstract | On first reading Jerzy Kosinski's Steps the reader encounters what seems to be a series of unrelated incidents. Several critics have suggested reasons for the book's fragmentary structure. Robert Boyer sees it as a montage of violence depicting ''the black flag of our condition."1 To Boyer, the book's fragmentary structure represents a gratuitous, chaotic existence which "makes no sense, but is ours to make sense of." To Samuel Coale, the book's fragmentary incidents presents us with "pictures" of a self which tries and fails to define itself as the sum of its actions:2 The tension exists between man's life as a series of disconnected events and man's attempt to find some kind of meaning that may possibly connect them. He cannot: the quest returns to the reality of the disconnected events themselves and no valid connection is ever made (pp. 364-5). | |
| dc.format.extent | 38 pages | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/31748 | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawaii at Manoa | |
| dc.rights | All UHM Honors Projects are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission from the copyright owner. | |
| dc.title | Jerzy Kosinski's Steps: The Vanishing Staircase | |
| dc.type | Term Project | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text |