One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations, including his last published interview. During his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new antholo...
It was personal, like a death. It haunted him.Kurt Vonnegut, a 22-year-old American infantryman, was a prisoner of the Germans and had been sent as a slave labourer, to the beautiful Baroque city of Dresden, in February 1945.For a boy from the mid-west, his first glimpse of it was...
as the life of Vonnegut is shown to have been plagued by misfortune: from the tragic death of his sister Alice to his mother’s suicide in 1944. It covers the writer’s eventful life from start to finish, delving into his experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany during the World War...
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five was published back in 1969, and the anti-war sci fi novel quickly became a classic. (The book now appears, for example, on Time Magazine's list of All Time 100 Novels.) Whether you've read the novel or not, you'll want
As the years rolled by, something unexpected happened — filmmaker and subject would become close friends. The upside to this was that Vonnegut would open up to Weide about his life and work in a personal way never before captured on camera. The downside was Weide’s concern that he might ...
TheSlaughterhouse-Fivequotes below are all either spoken by Kurt Vonnegut or refer to Kurt Vonnegut. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ...
Irony and humanity run neck and neck in Vonnegut’s work, but his appreciation for his Hoosier upbringing wasnever less than sincere: When I was born in 1922, barely a hundred years after Indiana became the 19th state in the Union,...
Kurt Vonnegut and the Destruction of War essaysSlaughterhouse-Five was written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in 1953. Whether the book is an antiwar novel or a science fiction novel is ambiguous, but after writing this book, Vonnegut insists that it was a failur
“In a remarkably short time, Noah has proven himself to be one of the best writers and showrunners in television with the stunning, back-to-back success of the Fargo franchise,” said John Landgraf, CEO of FX Networks and FX Productions, who made the announcement today. “He loves to ...
Vonnegut called Dresden “utter destruction” and “carnage unfathomable”. This distressing time in his life led to one of the many themes of Slaughterhouse-five which is that nothing good can come from war and a massacre. This theme is expressed in the story when Billy Pilgrim says “Birds...