Biography EssayAs 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 shorte...
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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 huma...
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Described as "a word cartoonist, a wise guy, a true subversive," by Valerie Sayers in the New York Times, Kurt Vonnegut is lauded as one of America's most respected novelists, "recognized as a thought...
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"I got to be a joke-maker as the youngest member of my family. My sister was five years older than I was, my brother was nine years older, and at the dinner table I was the lowest ranking thing there....
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As of 1977, Vonnegut's work includes eight novels, a play and a television play, two collections of short stories, a collection of essays, and a number of uncollected shorter pieces of fiction and non...
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., remains something of a paradox among science-fiction writers. Although his place of importance in serious American fiction is now secure, his relationship to the genre that nurture...
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[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-st...
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Critical Essay by Jean E. Kennard
[Almost] all the commentators on Vonnegut betray a certain uneasiness in talking about him as a satirist; he does not quite fit the mold. (p. 101)
Vonnegut'...
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Critical Essay by Terry Southern
The narrator of "Cat's Cradle" purports to be engaged in compiling a responsibly factual account of what certain interested Americans were doing ...
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I think that any novel can be only so effective, because usually only the people who share, for the most part, the authors views will read it. Is that not why we read? Insert quotation here. Others re...
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Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Cat's Cradle, is a lesson in human nature that is based around the story of its narrator, John. In the book, John is trying to research Felix Hoenikker, one of the fathers ...
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Religion and science play opposing roles in the real world, although, in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, they are noticeably similar. It's human nature to be searching for the truth to life. The common pers...
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In the novel Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut uses characterization to illustrate the way for humans to be happier by accepting events that happen in their lives as they are. The novel has many examples of...
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New York (dpa) - American writer and cult hero Kurt Vonnegut,
author of dark comedic novels such as Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's
Cradle, has died at the age of 84 after suf...
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Kurt Vonnegut's hometown has been celebrating his literary works in a "Year of Vonnegut" and will honor the late author this month at a sold-out event where he had been scheduled to speak.Fans who ...
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Ghostface will start his headlining trek in support of his upcoming album, Fishscale, on March 5 in Pittsburgh, hitting cities like Detroit, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta and Boston, before calling it ...
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Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," died Wednes...
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Like his friend Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut was a hero to baby boomers _ though he was raised in an earlier time. The president he mourned was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, not John F. Kennedy. His w...
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Within 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, leng...
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Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. In these frenzied, media-saturated times, the lure of a simpler past is more powerful than ever. That may explain the success of "The Dangerous Book for Boys," a...
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The war in Lebanon and Israel doesn’t have much to do with Lebanon, and scarcely more to do with Israel.
Lebanon is a land of ancient identities. If you follow events there at all, you come ...
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The war in Lebanon and Israel doesn’t have much to do with Lebanon, and scarcely more to do with Israel.
Lebanon is a land of ancient identities. If you follow events there at all, you come...
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Critical Essay by Jean E. Kennard
Cat's Cradle- Effectiveness
ROUNDUP: Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse-Five, dies at 84
