In class we seemed to talk a lot about whether or not, The Painted Bird was a work of fiction or non-fiction. It seems as though this question was never truly answered, and left many people wondering if Kosinski's story and life were somewhat fraudulent. As is the case with most of his books, Kosinski really blurred the lines of what was reality and what was purely made up for literary purposes. While doing some background research on his life, I found out that, there was actually Off-Broadway play based on Kosinski's life. I found this play very interesting because, as a New York Times Article from 2001 puts it "it raises the same questions about itself that it asks about its subject. The play, which opened on Sunday at the Vineyard Theater, is about authenticity and fabrication as they pertain to both writing and living, and it presents its central figure with the same mixture of fact and fiction with which Kosinski himself evidently wrote and lived."So in other words what the creators of this play did, blur the lines of fact in fiction in the play, the same way Kosinski did in his literary work and also his life. So even though he died in 1991 and this play was back in 2001, many people like us still wonder what exactly was fact or fiction in The Painted Bird, and also his own life.
Here is a link to the New York Times Article about the play
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/23/theater/theater-review-the-painted-bird-caged-what-is-the-truth-about-art.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
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