Kurt Vonnegut has always had a great awareness of the destructive social impact of science and technology. Contraptions that Vonnegut calls "social transplants" replace real relatives and friends with synthetic ones. Recordings, radio and television are just a few of these devices. They make ...
Kurt Vonnegutis the true representative of postmodernist fiction.While his style tends tobe simple and accessible--he uses a conversational tone, short chapters,and almost childlike descriptions at times--his subject matter is often veryserious .Vonnegut`s playful, humorous, and deceptively simple ...
Kurt Vonnegut was an American writer noted for his wryly satirical novels that highlight the horrors and ironies of 20th-century civilization. His classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five, published in 1969, drew on his experience in World War II to depict the