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Kurt Vonnegut ( / ˈvɒnəɡət / VON-ə-gət; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. [1] He published 14 novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty-plus years; further collections have been published since his death.
Kurt Vonnegut (1992–2007) was an American writer noted for his wryly satirical novels that highlight the horrors and ironies of 20th-century civilization. His classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five, published in 1969, drew on his experience in World War II to depict the cruelty and destructiveness of war.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Kurt Vonnegut emerged as a novelist and essayist in the 1960s and penned the classic books Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions before 1980. He is...
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- Player Piano (1952) Vonnegut’s first novel is a dystopia about the rising threat of automation, taking place in a future where human workers have been made almost entirely redundant by machines.
- The Sirens of Titan (1959) Malachi Constant is the richest man on Earth — but dominating just one planet doesn’t seem to be enough for him.
- Mother Night (1962) “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Such is Vonnegut’s message to readers in the introduction of Mother Night.
- Cat’s Cradle (1963) Cat’s Cradle is Vonnegut’s take on the horrors of the atomic bomb and the Cold War threat of nuclear destruction. Narrator John (or “Jonah” as he asks to be called) is working on a book called The Day the World Ended about the day Americans bombed Hiroshima.
- Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here.
- We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. from Mother Night.
- Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. from Slaughterhouse 5.
- Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable. from Breakfast of Champions.
Learn about the life and works of Kurt Vonnegut, one of the most influential and beloved American writers of the 20th century. From his childhood in Indianapolis to his capture in Dresden, from his bestsellers to his activism, this web page offers a brief overview of his biography.
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Learn about the life and works of Kurt Vonnegut, the American author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and other classics. Explore his biography, novels, collections, plays, and collaborations.
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