Kurt Vonnegut
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Biography
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [1] (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973).
On peepholes
In some of Kurt Vonnegut's novels, when somebody dies, Vonnegut does not call it dying. He writes that this person had their "peephole closed" and when they are born, they simply have their "peephole opened".
From Jahsonic.com
Louis-Ferdinand D. Céline (1894 - 1961) As Kurt Vonnegut states in his introduction to Rigadoon, ... It is referenced in the autobiographical first chapter of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five.
Dystopia The Giver by Lois Lowry; The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood; Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut; I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison ...
Andrew Calcutt Bram Stoker Hunter S. Thompson John Kennedy Toole Alexander Trocchi Kurt Vonnegut Jr Nathanael West Oscar Wilde Cornell Woolrich Rudolph Wurlitzer ...
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006) - Peter Boxall - 3 visits - Mar 15 Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John ... Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut 428. The Graduate – Charles Webb 429. ...
Cult fiction ... Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut); The Storm of Steel (Ernst Jünger) ... Jim Thompson , Gore Vidal , Kurt Vonnegut Jr , Irvine Welsh , Jeanette Winterson ...
Metafiction ... Tristram Shandy; Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions; David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men; Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry ...
Satire Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a political satire, adopting a sci-fi motif. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk is a satire of masculinity, consumerism, ...
Black comedy Writers such as Terry Southern, Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut and others published novels and stories where profound or horrific events were ...
Novels that have been considered the greatest ever 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 19. 1952 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 20. 1940 Native Son Richard Wright 21. 1959 Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow ...
