Name: Being There
Rating: 3.75 (14 reviews)

Jerzy Kosinski

A brilliant satire tells the tale of Chauncey "Chance" Gardiner, who appears out of nowhere to become the heir to the empire of a Wall Street tycoon, a presidential policy adviser, and a media mogul. Reprint.

Being There

Jerzy N. Kosinski

Donald

The only Heideggerian comedy novel ever written!

Being there

Nico J

This was a short novella I was required to read for my CMN 396 Senior Capstone. I appreciate the vagueness and confusion, and people without a decent sense of historical events might have a bit of trouble understanding the relevance of the events occurring around Chance, the main character. (to be honest, I had to look up a few historical figures myself). I must say I abhor the ending less because it is unfinished but because we become emotionally invested in a character whom is static, which is on my list of pet peeves in stories. However, I feel that is exactly the point - that an ordinary man is caught in a whirlwind of the projections people put on him, and he lets himself be reinvented without any bother. Still, then, to whom should we relate ?

Being There

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