COCKPIT byJERZYKOSINSKI 248 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $8.95.
"Let's say I'm a protagonist from someone else's novel."
So suggests Tarden, the protagonist of Jerzy Kosinski's Cockpit. If Tarden is indeed a creature from some other writer's galaxy, that author is manifestly Dostoyevsky. For like his predecessor, Kosinski explores the classic antinomies of rationality—and of experience that defeats reason and mocks humanity.
Tarden is a predatory double agent now on the run from his American employers, known only as The Service. He has stolen enough to permit a life of ease. But there is no such word...
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