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The Ugly Black Bird

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• ... that The Ugly Black Bird, a Polish book that successfully discredited the autobiographical value of Kosiński's The Painted Bird, initially received mostly very negative reviews? Source: https://brill.com/display/book/9789004521926/BP000009.xml for the first claim (discredited); https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/10/10/kosinskis-war and https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=Gm1vEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA284&dq=%22Czarny+ptasior%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjJ87Hz7seEAxVtZfUHHaVNAPUQ6AF6BAgMEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Czarny%20ptasior%22&f=false for the latter (negative reviews)

ALT0a: ... that The Ugly Black Bird, a Polish book that discredited the autobiographical value of Kosiński's The Painted Bird, initially received mostly negative reviews?

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Raḥamim (newspaper)

Created by Piotrus (talk).

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_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 14:51, 13 April 2024 (UTC).

• The article needs more clarity. From the article, it doesn't appear that Kosinski ever claimed that the characters in the book represent the "Polish nation". Where does the interpretation that his book "unfairly slanders the Polish nation" come from? (t · c) buidhe 06:35, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
  • To clarify, I think that ALT0 as written should not be accepted because of unnecessary and subjective modifiers, ie what differentiates a negative review from a very negative one? (t · c) buidhe 20:32, 25 April 2024 (UTC)