Editing Jerzy Kosiński (section)

=== ''Steps'' ===
''[[Steps (novel)|Steps]]'' (1968), a novel comprising scores of loosely connected vignettes, won the U.S. [[National Book Award for Fiction]].<ref name=nba1969/>

American novelist [[David Foster Wallace]] described ''Steps'' as a "collection of unbelievably creepy little allegorical tableaux done in a terse elegant voice that's like nothing else anywhere ever". Wallace continued in praise: "Only [[Kafka]]'s fragments get anywhere close to where Kosiński goes in this book, which is better than everything else he ever did combined."<ref>{{cite news |last=Zacharek |first=Stephanie |url=http://www.salon.com/books/bag/1999/04/12/wallace/ |title=Overlooked |work=Salon |date=April 12, 1999 |access-date=March 19, 2010 |archive-date=July 25, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725190640/http://www.salon.com/books/bag/1999/04/12/wallace |url-status=live }}</ref> Samuel Coale, in a 1974 discussion of Kosiński's fiction, wrote that "the narrator of ''Steps'' for instance, seems to be nothing more than a disembodied voice howling in some surrealistic wilderness."<ref>Samuel Coale. The Quest for the Elusive Self: the Fiction of Jerzy Kosiński. ''Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction''. 14, (3), pp. 25–37. Quoted in: Harold Bloom. [https://books.google.com/books?id=CLhZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22a+disembodied+voice+howling+in+some+surrealistic+wilderness.%22 ''Twentieth-century American Literature.''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230401143539/https://books.google.com/books?id=CLhZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22a+disembodied+voice+howling+in+some+surrealistic+wilderness.%22 |date=April 1, 2023 }}. Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. {{ISBN|0-87754-804-8}}, {{ISBN|978-0-87754-804-1}}</ref>