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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.
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Nov 7, 2022 · Best known as the eccentric author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut filled his novels, plays, and short stories with irreverence, satire, and wry wit. He wrote about...
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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] His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty-plus years; further works have been published since his death.
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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.
- 2BR02B. 2BR02B is a famous story by Kurt Vonnegut. It was first published in the science fiction magazine Worlds of If and later included in a book called Bagombo Snuff Box in 1999.
- EPICAC: This story was the first to introduce a computer named EPICAC, which later appeared in Vonnegut’s debut novel, Player Piano. The hd carlton book author inspired this novel from his time working at G.E.
- Who Am I This Time? Published in 1961 and included in Welcome to the Monkey House, this story was initially titled My Name is Everyone. It follows a man named Harry Nash, who is shy and uninteresting.
- Thanasphere. Published in 1950, the title of this story originates from the Greek word thanatos, meaning death. It’s set at the dawn of space exploration.
- “I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism.
- “When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water.
- “Nothing ever really ends. That’s the horrible part of being in the short-story business—you have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. ‘
- “If you want to make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.”
Oct 25, 2024 · 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.
Jul 3, 2018 · In his novels, Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007) coaxes the reader toward greater sympathy for humanity and deeper understanding of the human condition. His genre is satire—sometimes biting, sometimes tender, always funny.
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