Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007)
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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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
Disambiguation Notice:
(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.
Værker af Kurt Vonnegut
Novels & Stories, 1963-1973: Cat's Cradle / God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions… (2011) 370 eksemplarer
Novels & Stories 1950-1962: Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / Stories (2012) 241 eksemplarer
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five / The Sirens of Titan / Player Piano / Cat's Cradle / Breakfast of Champions /… (1980) 168 eksemplarer
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) (2011) 101 eksemplarer
If this isn't nice what is?, (much) expanded second edition: the graduation speeches and other words to live by (2014) 100 eksemplarer
Three By Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast for Champions (2007) 69 eksemplarer
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? (Even More) Expanded Third Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live… (2020) 51 eksemplarer
The sirens of Titan; Mother night; Cat's cradle; God bless you, Mr. Rosewater; Slaughterhouse-five (1988) 16 eksemplarer
5 by Kurt Vonnegut jr. (5 volumes) (Cat's Cradle, The Sirens of Titan, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Welcome To… (1973) 15 eksemplarer
Thanasphere 6 eksemplarer
If This isn't Nice, What is?: Advice for the Young by Kurt Vonnegut (2014) Hardcover (2013) 6 eksemplarer
Selected Works of Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle, Galapagos, The Big Trip Up Yonder, Unready to Wear (2014) 5 eksemplarer
Kurt Vonnegut SLAPSTICK Delacorte Press 1st Printing 5 eksemplarer
Long Walk to Forever [short story] 4 eksemplarer
Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973 (Loa #216): Cat's Cradle / Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of… 4 eksemplarer
The Big Space Fuck [short story] 4 eksemplarer
Masters of Science Fiction, Vol 1 4 eksemplarer
[Slapstick] [by: Kurt Vonnegut] 3 eksemplarer
The Souvenir 3 eksemplarer
Wampeters Foma & Granfalloons (opinions) 3 eksemplarer
Hall of Mirrors 3 eksemplarer
Utopia 14 - 1º volume 3 eksemplarer
Kirjailijan työ : Saul Bellow, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Kurt Vonnegut (1985) 3 eksemplarer
Sinbad (Singles Classic) 2 eksemplarer
Short Science Fiction Collection 020 2 eksemplarer
The Ides of March 2 eksemplarer
Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut (1991-03-21) (1800) 2 eksemplarer
Cat's Cradle / Welcome to the Monkey House 2 eksemplarer
Áldja meg az Isten, Mr. Rosewater, Az ötös számú vágóhíd 2 eksemplarer
Works of K. Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, The Sirens of Titan — Forfatter — 2 eksemplarer
Short Science Fiction Collection 051 2 eksemplarer
Klavirski avtomat 2 eksemplarer
Izbrannoje v dvuh tomah. Tom 1 / [perevod s anglijskogo L. Lubinskoi, A. Zvereva] (1994) 2 eksemplarer
Runaways 2 eksemplarer
Utopia 14 - 2º Volume 2 eksemplarer
Da Tutte le Strade si alzeranno lamenti. 2 eksemplarer
Cold Turkey 2 eksemplarer
All The King's Horses 1 eksemplar
Fortitude [short story] 1 eksemplar
Lot 3 books by Kurt Vonnegut,Jr., Galapagos a novel, Slaughter-House Five, Player Piano, (1974) 1 eksemplar
Utópia 14 1 eksemplar
Μητέρα Νύχτα 1 eksemplar
Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945 1 eksemplar
Here is a Lesson in Creative Writing (in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 - EGGERS) 1 eksemplar
Người không quê hương 1 eksemplar
О дивный новый мир 1 eksemplar
Short Science Fiction Collection 047 1 eksemplar
Bard books 1 eksemplar
Short Science Fiction Collection 062 1 eksemplar
Short Science Fiction Collection 039 1 eksemplar
Cronosisma 1 eksemplar
Payasadas, ¡o nunca más solos! 1 eksemplar
Desayuno de campeones 1 eksemplar
Café Da Manhã Dos Campeões 1 eksemplar
Tšempionide eine 1 eksemplar
The art of fiction no. 44: Kurt Vonnegut 1 eksemplar
Unpaid Consultant 1 eksemplar
The Indiscreet Mirror [article, in Proceedings of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, May 16, 1984;… (1984) 1 eksemplar
slaughternhouse 1 eksemplar
Bagombo Snuff Box [short story] 1 eksemplar
Del 1 eksemplar
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 eksemplar
Wampeters Foma & Granfallons 1 eksemplar
Kolybel' dlia koshki 1 eksemplar
The Complete Novels - Kurt Vonnegut 1 eksemplar
Galpagos 1 eksemplar
Cats Cradle 1 eksemplar
0083- Selected stories 1 eksemplar
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater / Cat's Cradle 1 eksemplar
"Biblioteka sovremennoĭ fantastiki". ( Tom 12.) 1 eksemplar
Utopia 14, 2º vol 1 eksemplar
Utopia 14, 1º vol 1 eksemplar
תראה, ציפור : [סיפורים קצרים מהמגירה] 1 eksemplar
ברוכים הבאים אל בית-הקוף 1 eksemplar
Essential Vonnegut Interviews CD (Caedmon Essentials) by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut (2006-11-28) 1 eksemplar
Player Piano; Cat's Cradle; Slaughterhouse-five 1 eksemplar
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Reads Welcome to the Monkey House, New Dictionary, and Harrison Bergeron 1 eksemplar
Find Me A Dream 1 eksemplar
The Package 1 eksemplar
Novels & Stories 1987-1997 1 eksemplar
Novels & Stories 1976-1985 1 eksemplar
The No-talent Kid 1 eksemplar
"Slaughterhouse 5", (Universal One Sheet, Black & White Movie Poster), V.G.+ (folded, fold tears), # 6555 1 eksemplar
Poor Little Rich Town 1 eksemplar
Kurt Vonnegut's Welcome to the Monkey House 1 eksemplar
A Night For Love 1 eksemplar
The Cruise Of The Jolly Roger 1 eksemplar
Custom-made Bride 1 eksemplar
The Drone King 1 eksemplar
Requiem for Zeitgeist 1 eksemplar
The Woman of Andros and The Ides of March 1 eksemplar
This Son Of Mine 1 eksemplar
"Drawing of His Friend, Yevtushenko" Broadside 1 eksemplar
The Boy Who Hated Girls 1 eksemplar
Der Arme Dolmetscher [short story] 1 eksemplar
Ambitious Sophomore 1 eksemplar
Any Reasonable Offer 1 eksemplar
A Present For Big Saint Nick 1 eksemplar
Barbablù 1 eksemplar
Kurt Vonnegut: Listy 1 eksemplar
T B R 0 2 B 1 eksemplar
Un avanzo di galera 1 eksemplar
Fuh-Kar-Wee Indians and the Christian Year 2000 1 eksemplar
Hal Irwin’s Magic Lamp 1 eksemplar
Lovers Anonymous 1 eksemplar
The Chemistry Professor 1 eksemplar
2000x: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 1 eksemplar
Slaughter House Five or The Children's Crusade 1 eksemplar
රෑ මාතා 1 eksemplar
Oko sokolovo 1 eksemplar
Vremetres 1 eksemplar
Bode Vermelho 1 eksemplar
Ready to read - Green line: The Ugly Duckling - book + audio CD (Italian Edition) (1998) 1 eksemplar
Mnemonics 1 eksemplar
Notes on Armagedon 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Bidragyder — 451 eksemplarer
The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition (1999) — Bidragyder — 431 eksemplarer
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Bidragyder — 183 eksemplarer
The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (1999) — Bidragyder — 175 eksemplarer
The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture (1999) — Bidragyder — 167 eksemplarer
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology (2009) — Bidragyder — 130 eksemplarer
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Bidragyder — 86 eksemplarer
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1985) — Bidragyder — 69 eksemplarer
Cape Cod Stories: Tales from Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard (1996) — Bidragyder — 52 eksemplarer
Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny (2016) 27 eksemplarer
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1961, Vol. 21, No. 4 (1961) — Bidragyder — 20 eksemplarer
Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (2009) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1994 (1993) — Author "So it goes." — 9 eksemplarer
Tider skal komme : 15 langtidsvarsler : en science fiction-antologi — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
Ki ょ う も 気 God prepared a short masterpiece SF election (Kadokawa library) (2010) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
RDCBLP Saint Paul | Apostle to All Men | Horowitz and Mrs. Washington | The Foster Portfolio | Bel Ria (1980) 1 eksemplar
S-Fマガジン 2007年 09月号 [雑誌] 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
- Fødselsdato
- 1922-11-11
- Dødsdag
- 2007-04-11
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Dødssted
- New York, New York, USA
- Dødsårsag
- brain injuries incurred several weeks prior from a fall at his New York brownstone home
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, USA
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA - Uddannelse
- University of Chicago
Cornell University
Carnegie Institute of Technology
University of Tennessee - Erhverv
- journalist
novelist
essayist
playwright
screenwriter - Relationer
- Vonnegut, Mark (son)
Vonnegut, Edith (daughter)
Krementz, Jill (spouse) - Organisationer
- American Humanist Association
U.S. Army (WWII|POW)
Iowa Writers' Workshop - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- 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 (vis alle 8)
Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2015)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2001) - Kort biografi
- 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.
- Oplysning om flertydighed
- 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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Discussions
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut [Hamilton Press 2001] i Fine Press Forum (oktober 2022)
Sci-Fi Story, People Live Forever i Name that Book (august 2017)
November 2013: Kurt Vonnegut i Monthly Author Reads (november 2014)
1001 Group Read-December, 2012: Slaughterhouse Five i 1001 Books to read before you die (januar 2013)
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Hovedpersonen i romanen er Billy Pilgrim, der deltager i Ardennerslaget som medhjælper for en feltpræst. Våben har han ingen erfaring med, og uniformen lader også meget tilbage af ønske. I stedet for militærstøvler har han halvødelagte sko på, da han bliver skilt fra sit kompagni og strejfer om bag tyskernes linjer sammen med tre andre soldater. Da han endelig er taget til fange, bliver han udstyret med en endnu mere latterlig frakke og sendt mod Dresden som tvangsarbejder for den tyske industri. Amerikanerne indkvarteres i byens gamle slagtehal – deraf titlen.
Men Billy Pilgrim er også meget andet. Som voksen bliver han kidnappet af rumvæsener og ført til planeten Tralfamadore, hvor han udstilles i en zoologisk have og konfronteres med tralfamadorianernes mærkelige verdenssyn. De ser verden i fire dimensioner, så alle punkter i tidslinjen er lige virkelige hele tiden. Et menneske er således både ufødt, levende og død på samme tid og til alle tider. Men det er ikke det hele: Billy er også ”tidsspastiker”, dvs. han kan glide ud og ind af forskellige dele af sit liv. Det sker hele tiden, men det er mest udpræget, når han bliver stresset.
Fortællingen glider frem og tilbage mellem de forskellige spor. Tilfangetagelsen, rejsen til Dresden og bombardementet udgør bogens skelet, men det flettes elegant sammen med Billys senere liv som succesfuld forretningsmand, som nogenlunde lykkeligt gift ægtemand og far og med hans oplevelser hos rumvæsenerne.
Er bortførelsen virkelig noget han har oplevet, eller er det en ekstrapolering af alle de science fiction historier af Kilgore Trout, han har læst? Er tidsforskydningerne virkelige, eller er det den ældre Billys måde at nærme sig tragedien på? Uanset hvad, så accepterede jeg præmissen, og trods krumspringene er historien helt enkel at læse.
Som krigsroman er Slagtehal fem helt sin egen. Der er spor af Joseph Hellers barokke parodi på militær logik, men med rumvæsener og tidsrejser bryder Vonnegut alle regler for at skildre anden verdenskrig og dens ødelæggende angreb på civile. Det er ikke altid, at den korteste vej mellem to punkter er en lige linje, og i Slagtehal fem tager forfatteren noget af en omvej for at nå frem til bombardementet af Dresden. Men det giver mening.… (mere)