Marc Leeds, Peter Reed

The Vonnegut Chronicles

Interviews and Essays

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since 1950, when his short stories first appeared, Kurt Vonnegut has published almost 50 short stories, 13 novels, two plays, and a teleplay. He has remained one of the shrewdest commentators-and often harshest critics-of American society, challenging the complacency of the Eisenhower years, watching the Kennedy's with admiration, and disliking Nixon. He has remained one of the most important chroniclers of American life, his message often foreboding though rarely gloomy. Yet he occupies an ambiguous place in American letters. The 14 essays in this collection seek to chronicle Vonnegut's career as it moves through changing times. The volume opens with a chronology of Vonnegut's life and three interviews with him. The essays consider his career, combining interest and readability for the general reader with critical commentary for the more serious scholar. The essays consider Vonnegut's later work or are retrospectives reevaluating aspects of his career. Some discuss individual works, particularly later novels, but most consider the ways Vonnegut pursues a theme or technique, the ways his mind works both in the construction of the novels and in the ideas embodied in them. There is also an Appendix discussing Vonnegut's most recent creative enterprise, graphic art, with 12 illustrations of his most recent art work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9780313297199
• ISBN-10: 0313297193
• Artikelnr.: 22464152

Autorenporträt

Marc Leeds, Peter Reed

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Chronology Introduction Three Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut:
With Peter Reed, New York, 1982; With Zoltán Abádi-Nagy, New York, 1989;
With Peter Reed and Marc Leeds, Lexington, 1993 The Responsive Shaman: Kurt
Vonnegut and His World by Peter Reed Kurt Vonnegut: Public Spokesman by
Jerome Klinkowitz Kurt Vonnegut as a German American by Robert Merrill
Bokononism as a Structure of Ironies by Zoltá Abádi-Nadj Beyond the
Slaughterhouse: Tralfamadorian Reading Theory in the Novels of Kurt
Vonnegut by Marc Leeds Jailbird: A Postmodern Fairy Tale by Kay Nelson The
Family Theme in Kurt Vonnegut's Slapstick by Peter Reed Dancing with the
Muse in Vonnegut's Later Novels by Lorre Rackstraw Vonnegut's Invented
Religions by Peter Freese Bluebeard and Abstract Expressionsim by Cliff
McCarthy Hartke's Hearing: Vonnegut's Heroes on Trial by Lawrence Broer A
Selected Bibliography, 1985-1992 by Peter Reed and Paul Baepler Appendix:
The Graphics of Kurt Vonnegut Index