Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007)
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Sobre l'autor
The appeal of Kurt Vonnegut, especially to bright younger readers of the past few decades, may be attributed partly to the fact that he is one of the few writers who have successfully straddled the imaginary line between science-fiction/fantasy and "real literature." He was born in Indianapolis and mostra'n més attended Cornell University, but his college education was interrupted by World War II. Captured during the Battle of the Bulge and imprisoned in Dresden, he received a Purple Heart for what he calls a "ludicrously negligible wound." After the war he returned to Cornell and then earned his M.A. at the University of Chicago.He worked as a police reporter and in public relations before placing several short stories in the popular magazines and beginning his career as a novelist. His first novel, Player Piano (1952), is a highly credible account of a future mechanistic society in which people count for little and machines for much. The Sirens of Titan (1959), is the story of a playboy whisked off to Mars and outer space in order to learn some humbling lessons about Earth's modest function in the total scheme of things. Mother Night (1962) satirizes the Nazi mentality in its narrative about an American writer who broadcasts propaganda in Germany during the war as an Allied agent. Cat's Cradle (1963) makes use of some of Vonnegut's experiences in General Electric laboratories in its story about the discovery of a special kind of ice that destroys the world. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) satirizes a benevolent foundation set up to foster the salvation of the world through love, an endeavor with, of course, disastrous results. Slaughterhouse-Five; or The Children's Crusade (1969) is the book that marked a turning point in Vonnegut's career. Based on his experiences in Dresden, it is the story of another Vonnegut surrogate named Billy Pilgrim who travels back and forth in time and becomes a kind of modern-day Everyman. The novel was something of a cult book during the Vietnam era for its antiwar sentiments. Breakfast of Champions (1973), the story of a Pontiac dealer who goes crazy after reading a science fiction novel by "Kilgore Trout," received generally unfavorable reviews but was a commercial success. Slapstick (1976), dedicated to the memory of Laurel and Hardy, is the somewhat wacky memoir of a 100-year-old ex-president who thinks he can solve society's problems by giving everyone a new middle name. In addition to his fiction, Vonnegut has published nonfiction on social problems and other topics, some of which is collected in Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974). He died from head injuries sustained in a fall on April 11, 2007. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Nota de desambiguació:
(eng) Kilgore Trout, the name of a character in several of Kurt Vonnegut's books, was later used as a pseudonym by Philip José Farmer. Vonnegut himself never wrote under or went by the name Kilgore Trout.
Obres de Kurt Vonnegut
Novels & Stories, 1963-1973: Cat's Cradle / God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions… (2011) 370 exemplars
Novels & Stories 1950-1962: Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / Stories (2012) 241 exemplars
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five / The Sirens of Titan / Player Piano / Cat's Cradle / Breakfast of Champions /… (1980) 168 exemplars
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) (2011) 101 exemplars
If this isn't nice what is?, (much) expanded second edition: the graduation speeches and other words to live by (2014) 100 exemplars
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? (Even More) Expanded Third Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live… (2020) 51 exemplars
The sirens of Titan; Mother night; Cat's cradle; God bless you, Mr. Rosewater; Slaughterhouse-five (1988) 16 exemplars
5 by Kurt Vonnegut jr. (5 volumes) (Cat's Cradle, The Sirens of Titan, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Welcome To… (1973) 15 exemplars
Thanasphere 6 exemplars
If This isn't Nice, What is?: Advice for the Young by Kurt Vonnegut (2014) Hardcover (2013) 6 exemplars
Selected Works of Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle, Galapagos, The Big Trip Up Yonder, Unready to Wear (2014) 5 exemplars
Long Walk to Forever [short story] 4 exemplars
The Big Space Fuck [short story] 4 exemplars
Masters of Science Fiction, Vol 1 4 exemplars
[Slapstick] [by: Kurt Vonnegut] 3 exemplars
The Souvenir 3 exemplars
Wampeters Foma & Granfalloons (opinions) 3 exemplars
Hall of Mirrors 3 exemplars
Utopia 14 - 1º volume 3 exemplars
Kirjailijan työ : Saul Bellow, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Kurt Vonnegut (1985) 3 exemplars
Sinbad (Singles Classic) 2 exemplars
Short Science Fiction Collection 020 2 exemplars
The Ides of March 2 exemplars
Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut (1991-03-21) (1800) 2 exemplars
Cat's Cradle / Welcome to the Monkey House 2 exemplars
Works of K. Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, The Sirens of Titan — Autor — 2 exemplars
Short Science Fiction Collection 051 2 exemplars
Klavirski avtomat 2 exemplars
Izbrannoje v dvuh tomah. Tom 1 / [perevod s anglijskogo L. Lubinskoi, A. Zvereva] (1994) 2 exemplars
Runaways 2 exemplars
Utopia 14 - 2º Volume 2 exemplars
Da Tutte le Strade si alzeranno lamenti. 2 exemplars
Cold Turkey 2 exemplars
All The King's Horses 1 exemplars
Fortitude [short story] 1 exemplars
Lot 3 books by Kurt Vonnegut,Jr., Galapagos a novel, Slaughter-House Five, Player Piano, (1974) 1 exemplars
Utópia 14 1 exemplars
Μητέρα Νύχτα 1 exemplars
Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945 1 exemplars
Here is a Lesson in Creative Writing (in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 - EGGERS) 1 exemplars
Người không quê hương 1 exemplars
О дивный новый мир 1 exemplars
Short Science Fiction Collection 047 1 exemplars
Bard books 1 exemplars
Short Science Fiction Collection 062 1 exemplars
Short Science Fiction Collection 039 1 exemplars
Cronosisma 1 exemplars
Payasadas, ¡o nunca más solos! 1 exemplars
Desayuno de campeones 1 exemplars
Café Da Manhã Dos Campeões 1 exemplars
Tšempionide eine 1 exemplars
The art of fiction no. 44: Kurt Vonnegut 1 exemplars
Unpaid Consultant 1 exemplars
The Indiscreet Mirror [article, in Proceedings of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, May 16, 1984;… (1984) 1 exemplars
slaughternhouse 1 exemplars
Bagombo Snuff Box [short story] 1 exemplars
Del 1 exemplars
カート・ヴォネガット全短篇 2 バーンハウス効果に関する報告書 1 exemplars
Wampeters Foma & Granfallons 1 exemplars
Kolybel' dlia koshki 1 exemplars
The Complete Novels - Kurt Vonnegut 1 exemplars
Galpagos 1 exemplars
Cats Cradle 1 exemplars
0083- Selected stories 1 exemplars
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater / Cat's Cradle 1 exemplars
"Biblioteka sovremennoĭ fantastiki". ( Tom 12.) 1 exemplars
Utopia 14, 2º vol 1 exemplars
Utopia 14, 1º vol 1 exemplars
תראה, ציפור : [סיפורים קצרים מהמגירה] 1 exemplars
ברוכים הבאים אל בית-הקוף 1 exemplars
Essential Vonnegut Interviews CD (Caedmon Essentials) by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut (2006-11-28) 1 exemplars
Player Piano; Cat's Cradle; Slaughterhouse-five 1 exemplars
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Reads Welcome to the Monkey House, New Dictionary, and Harrison Bergeron 1 exemplars
Find Me A Dream 1 exemplars
The Package 1 exemplars
Novels & Stories 1987-1997 1 exemplars
Novels & Stories 1976-1985 1 exemplars
The No-talent Kid 1 exemplars
"Slaughterhouse 5", (Universal One Sheet, Black & White Movie Poster), V.G.+ (folded, fold tears), # 6555 1 exemplars
Poor Little Rich Town 1 exemplars
Kurt Vonnegut's Welcome to the Monkey House 1 exemplars
A Night For Love 1 exemplars
The Cruise Of The Jolly Roger 1 exemplars
Custom-made Bride 1 exemplars
The Drone King 1 exemplars
Requiem for Zeitgeist 1 exemplars
The Woman of Andros and The Ides of March 1 exemplars
This Son Of Mine 1 exemplars
"Drawing of His Friend, Yevtushenko" Broadside 1 exemplars
The Boy Who Hated Girls 1 exemplars
Der Arme Dolmetscher [short story] 1 exemplars
Ambitious Sophomore 1 exemplars
Any Reasonable Offer 1 exemplars
A Present For Big Saint Nick 1 exemplars
Barbablù 1 exemplars
Kurt Vonnegut: Listy 1 exemplars
T B R 0 2 B 1 exemplars
Un avanzo di galera 1 exemplars
Fuh-Kar-Wee Indians and the Christian Year 2000 1 exemplars
Hal Irwin’s Magic Lamp 1 exemplars
Lovers Anonymous 1 exemplars
The Chemistry Professor 1 exemplars
2000x: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 1 exemplars
Slaughter House Five or The Children's Crusade 1 exemplars
රෑ මාතා 1 exemplars
Oko sokolovo 1 exemplars
Vremetres 1 exemplars
Bode Vermelho 1 exemplars
Ready to read - Green line: The Ugly Duckling - book + audio CD (Italian Edition) (1998) 1 exemplars
Mnemonics 1 exemplars
Notes on Armagedon 1 exemplars
Obres associades
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Col·laborador — 451 exemplars
The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition (1999) — Col·laborador — 431 exemplars
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Col·laborador — 183 exemplars
The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (1999) — Col·laborador — 175 exemplars
The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture (1999) — Col·laborador — 167 exemplars
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology (2009) — Col·laborador — 130 exemplars
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Col·laborador — 86 exemplars
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1985) — Col·laborador — 69 exemplars
Cape Cod Stories: Tales from Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard (1996) — Col·laborador — 52 exemplars
Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny (2016) 27 exemplars
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1961, Vol. 21, No. 4 (1961) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (2009) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1994 (1993) — Author "So it goes." — 9 exemplars
Tider skal komme : 15 langtidsvarsler : en science fiction-antologi — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Ki ょ う も 気 God prepared a short masterpiece SF election (Kadokawa library) (2010) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
RDCBLP Saint Paul | Apostle to All Men | Horowitz and Mrs. Washington | The Foster Portfolio | Bel Ria (1980) 1 exemplars
The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Menace and Adventure (2013) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
S-Fマガジン 2007年 09月号 [雑誌] 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
- Data de naixement
- 1922-11-11
- Data de defunció
- 2007-04-11
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa de la mort
- brain injuries incurred several weeks prior from a fall at his New York brownstone home
- Llocs de residència
- New York, New York, USA
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA - Educació
- University of Chicago
Cornell University
Carnegie Institute of Technology
University of Tennessee - Professions
- journalist
novelist
essayist
playwright
screenwriter - Relacions
- Vonnegut, Mark (son)
Vonnegut, Edith (daughter)
Krementz, Jill (spouse) - Organitzacions
- American Humanist Association
U.S. Army (WWII|POW)
Iowa Writers' Workshop - Premis i honors
- State Author of New York/Edith Wharton Citation of Merit (2001-03)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award [1970]
Humanist of the Year [1992]
Asteroid Namesake [2539]
Purple Heart
Prisoner of War Medal (mostra-les totes 8)
Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2015)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2001) - Biografia breu
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr est né à Indianapolis en 1922. Prisonnier de guerre à Dresde pendant cinq mois, il y fut témoin du bombardement de 1945. De retour aux États-Unis, il se mit à écrire. Son roman le plus célèbre, Abattoir 5, resta pendant trois mois en tête des best-sellers américains.
- Nota de desambiguació
- Kilgore Trout, the name of a character in several of Kurt Vonnegut's books, was later used as a pseudonym by Philip José Farmer. Vonnegut himself never wrote under or went by the name Kilgore Trout.
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut [Hamilton Press 2001] a Fine Press Forum (octubre 2022)
Sci-Fi Story, People Live Forever a Name that Book (agost 2017)
November 2013: Kurt Vonnegut a Monthly Author Reads (novembre 2014)
1001 Group Read-December, 2012: Slaughterhouse Five a 1001 Books to read before you die (gener 2013)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 291
- També de
- 83
- Membres
- 180,112
- Popularitat
- #27
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 2,307
- ISBN
- 1,566
- Llengües
- 38
- Preferit
- 1,390