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G. K. Hall's three series of critical essays give comprehensive coverage of major authors worldwide and throughout history. The full range of literary traditions and schools is represented. Each new volume is carefully conceived and developed to fill a gap in the literary criticism available today. Volume editors are established authorities on the lives, works, and critical receptions of their subjects. They are uniquely qualified to ensure the spectrum of critical controversies, trends, and techniques inspired by their subjects in their own countries and abroad, in their own eras and today. Each volume features: an introduction which provides the reader with a lucid overview of criticism from its beginnings illuminating controversies, evaluating approaches, and sorting out the schools of thought the most influential reviews and the best of reprinted scholarly essays a section devoted exclusively to reviews and reactions by the subject's contemporaries original essays, new translations, and revisions commissioned especially for the series previously unpublished materials such as interviews, lost letters, and manuscript fragments; a bibliography of the subject's writings and interviews; and a name and subject index. As skillful at reinventing himself as he was at inventing the characters and themes of his acclaimed and popular novels, Jerzy Kosinski remains an important though controversial voice in contemporary American fiction. A comprehensive analysis of the writer and his work, Critical Essays on Jerzy Kosinski provides an overview of criticism from the 1960s to the 1990s, collects and reprints the most significant contemporary reviews and essays, and offers original perspectives and insights in new essays by major literary critics. Accessible to general readers and indispensable to scholars, the volume is a vital addition to the study of Kosinski's work in particular and to a study of the contemporary American novel in general.

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