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| Name: |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | | Birth Date: |
November 11, 1922 | | Place of Birth: |
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, essayist, dramatist |
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 Biography of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
1363 words, approx. 4.5 pages
 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (born 1922) is acknowledged as a major voice in American literature and applauded for his pungent satirical depictions of modern society. Emphasizing the comic absurdity of the human condition, he frequently depicts characters who sear... summary from source:
 Biography of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
16774 words, approx. 55.9 pages
 [This entry was updated by Peter J. Reed (University of Minnesota) from his entry in DLB 152: American Novelists Since World War II, Fourth Series.] Though Kurt Vonnegut had been a widely read short-story writer throughout the 1950s and though his novels... summary from source:
Biography of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
14474 words, approx. 48.2 pages
As of 1987 Kurt Vonnegut's work includes twelve novels, a play and a television play, two collections of short stories, two collections of essays, and a miscellany of uncollected shorter pieces of fiction and nonfiction. He is himself the subject of a nu...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Breakfast of Champions Information
1,197 words, approx. 4 pages
<i>Breakfast of Champions</i>, or <i>Goodbye Blue Monday</i> is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying...
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 greatreporter.com Raw Talent: An AlbertFinney Quiz
10/8/2007: 302 words, approx. 1 pagesQuestion 1 of 10:Born to a working class family in Salford , Albert climbed the acting ladder until he was taken under whose wing? Richard Burton 's Laurence Olivier 's Ralph Richardson 's John Gielgud 'sQuestion 2 of 10: Albert had his first... summary from source:
AP News Kurt Vonnegut tops in public's heart
11/16/2007: 775 words, approx. 3 pagesWithin the past year, three of the most famous authors to emerge after World War II have died: Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut and William Styron. Their deaths all resulted in front-page stories, lengthy appreciations and ongoing discussions about their place in American letters.No writer was...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Martin Burns
568 words, approx. 2 pages
In Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut intends to release his characters from his control. In doing so, he shows their unreadiness to cope with freedom, or to measure up to its responsibilities. In a sense, he is telling us that we are all living in our own private novels, but our actions do not, in reality, follow a coherent plot. Our lives collide and interfere with each other. We inevitably become what we do…. Vonnegut's people were once machines that one could wind up and set loose. He wants ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by J. D. O'hara
360 words, approx. 1 pages
[Breakfast of Champions] is almost a deliberate curiosity, an earnest attempt to play after getting Dresden out of the way. It's filled with Vonnegut's cartoon drawings of items mentioned in the text; it plays the whimsical game of pretending that we know nothing about life on earth … and it delivers many straight-faced criticisms of Life…. He indulges in some obligatory no-no's: he talks about Niggers, he draws a vagina, he gives penis measurements of most of the male cha...
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