Briefly Vonnegut

briefly Vonnegut jr. (* 11. November 1922 in Indianapolis) is US - a writer. Its parents are short the architect Vonnegut, SR. and Edith Vonnegut, geb. Rather. Both parents come of to families, which originally immigrated from Germany to the USA. Brieflytwo older brothers and sisters, Berne pool of broadcasting corporations and Alice has.

lives

already in its school time to the Shortridge High School, thoseit from 1936 to its conclusion 1940 visited, made its first steps for Vonnegut as journalist and an author. He worked regularly for the school newspaper “The Shortridge High School echo”. It studied biochemistry to the Cornell University. During its time in Cornell he worked asEditor and columnist for the Cornell Sun, the daily paper at the college of Cornell. At the beginning of of 1943 announced itself to Vonnegut as a Freiwilliger to American armed forces. In December 1944 the 106te infantry division, at which Vonnegut was used as reconnaissance aircraft, turned out into the Ardennenoffensive. The inexperienced unitsthe 106ten - the average age amounted to 22 years - were partly reamed. To 22. December came to Vonnegut into German war shank. As a prisoner of war he experienced the destruction of Dresden by allied bombers in Germany. From this experience most coining/shaping for him it developed its most well-known novel -“Slaughterhouse Five” (dt.:Slaughterhouse 5 or the child crusade; 1969; ISBN 3499115247).

artistic work

after the war it specialized on the area of the anthropology at the university in Chicago, before it itself completely the Schriftstellerei, first that Science Fiction dedicated and also considerable successes obtained. Its first novel, Player Piano (1952) is considered as important work of the Sci Fi anti- Utopismus.

In some stories its fictitious age Ego dips would keel-Kiel Trout up. Vonnegut has some unausgereiften ideas or historical fragments - it too skurrilare guessed/advised - to paper brought, he writes her gladly “long to the Science out of print Fiction author would keel-Kiel Trout” too. According to speculations Kill ferment Trout leads itself (too German quasi: Cannibalize the Forelle) from an anecdote described more near in Timequake around Hemingway's The old one and theSea off. Represented in Alan Rudolph 's film adaptation of BREAK nearly OF champion would keel-Kiel Trout of Albert Finney.

The idea would keel-Kiel Trout by the author Philip José Farmer was likewise taken up, that under this alias the novel Venus on the helping Shell (too German: The birththe Venus) published and thus from the fictitious material person created.

world-descriptive

Vonnegut originates briefly from a family with long free philosophers - a tradition. It is belonged to honorary president of the American human Association and to the Erstunterzeichnern of the “Humanisti communist manifesto III”. InVonneguts novels are to arguments with the religion again and again. The Atheist and human Vonnegut see an attempt of humans in the religion to overcome their isolation. Against destructive Kraft of the isolation, which destroys the small family, briefly Vonnegut sets its utopia of the artificial extended family.Vonnegut expresses itself briefly sceptically over the success of the love and over its Wohltaten. Humans need less love, than rather general behaviour in handling with one another, mean it.

works

of novels/novellas

• Player Piano, 1952 (the höllischeSystem, 1988)
• The Sirenes OF titanium 1959 (the sirens titanium, 1979)
• MON ago Night, 1961 (nut/mother night, 1988)
• Cat's Cradle, 1963 (cat cradle, 1985)
• God bless you, Mr. Rosewater, 1965 (God segne it Mr. Rosewater, 1974)
• Slaughterhouse Five or The Children' s Crusade, 1969 (slaughterhouse 5 or the child crusade, 1972)
• BREAK nearly OF champion, 1973 (breakfast for strong men, 1974, also: Breakfast for hero)
• Slapstick, 1976 (Slapstick, 1980)
• Jailbird, 1979(Galgenvogel, 1980)
• Deadeye thick, 1982 (goal water, 1987)
• Galapagos, 1985 (Galapagos, 1987)
• Bluebeard, 1987 (blue beard, 1989)
• Hocus Pocus, 1990 (Hokus Pokus or where so hasty?, 1992)
• Timequake, 1997 (time quake, 1998)
• A one without A Country, 2005 (man without country, 2006)

collected Kurzgeschichten/auto+biographic notes

• Welcome ton the Monkey House, 1950-1968 (go back to your dear wife, 1974)
• Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons, 1974
• Palm Sunday, 1981 (the noodle work, 1992)
• Fates Worse Than Death, 1991 (then rather equivalent dead, 1991)
• Bagombo Snuff box, 1999 (search dream, offer me, to 1999)

literature

• Stefan T. Pinternagel: Briefly Vonnegut jr. and the ScienceFiction - would keel-Kiel Trout, Tralfamadore and Bokononismus Berlin: Shayol publishing house. 2005. ISBN 3-926126-49-3
• Ute H. Bertram: The role of the religious one in the novels of briefly Vonnegut. Frankfurt/Main: R. G. Fischer. 1989. ISBN 3-89406-106-5
• Harold Bloom (Hrsg.): Briefly Vonnegut's Cat's cradle.Philadelphia: Chelsea House.2002.ISBN 0-7910-6337-2
• Kevin Alexander Boon: Chaos theory and the interpretation OF literary text. The case OF briefly Vonnegut. Lewiston, NY and. A.: Mellen. 1997. (= Studies in American literature; 27) ISBN 0-7734-8553-8
• Kevin Alexander Boon (Hrsg.): To RK millennium's end. New essay on the workOF briefly Vonnegut. Albany, NY: State Univ. OF New York press. 2001. To ISBN 0-7914-4929-7
• helmet-break Breinig: Satire and novel. Studies for the theory of the category conflict and for the sow-Irish telling literature of the USA von Brackenridge to Vonnegut. Tübingen: Fool. 1984. (= Mannheimer of contributions to the speaking and literature science; 4)
• Sabine Brocher: Aberteuerliche of elements in the modern novel. Italo Calvino, Ernst Augustin, Luigi Malerba, briefly Vonnegut, Ror wolf. Munich and. A.: Hanser. 1981. ISBN 3-446-13311-9
• Lawrence R. Broer: Sanity plea. Schizophrenia into the novels OF briefly Vonnegut.Ann Arbor, me. and. A.: Umi Research Pr. 1989.(= Studies into speculative fiction; 18) ISBN 0-8357-1885-9
• Irina small: Pluralismus in the conception of the world of the works briefly Vonneguts. Marburg: Tectum. 1997. (= edition science; America sneezing TIC lines up; 7) ISBN 3-8288-0009-2
• Jerome Klinkowitz: The Vonnegut effect. Columbia: Univ. OF South Carolina press. 2004. ISBN 1-57003-520-2
• Dominik Kuppels: Warand “black humor”. Postmodernism telling procedure with Joseph Heller (Catch-22), briefly Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse five) and Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's rainbow). Marburg: Tectum. 1997. (= Edition science; Anglistik lines up; 16) ISBN 3-89608-786-X
• Mark of Leeds: The Vonnegut encyclopedia. On authorized compendium. West haven and. A.: Greenwood press. 1995. ISBN 0-313-29230-2
• ThomasF. Marvin:Briefly Vonnegut. A critical companion. West haven, Conn. and. A.: Greenwood press. 2002. ISBN 0-313-31439-X
• Robert Merrill: Critical essay on briefly Vonnegut. Bad clay/tone, measure.: Resound. 1990. ISBN 0-8161-8893-9
• Donald E. Morse: The novels OF briefly Vonnegut. Imagining being at American.West haven, Conn. and. A.:Praeger. 2003. (= Contributions ton the study OF science fiction and fantasy; 103) ISBN 0-313-31914-6
• Leonard Mustazza: Forever pursuing genesis. The myth OF Eden into the novels OF briefly Vonnegut. Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ. Pr. and. A. 1990. ISBN 0-8387-5176-8
• Leonard Mustazza (Hrsg.): The critical responseton briefly Vonnegut. West haven, Conn. and. A.: Greenwood press. 1994. (= Critical of responses in kind and letters; 14) ISBN 0-313-28634-5
• Ralf Norrman: “Wholeness restored”. Love OF symmetry as A shaping force into the writings OF Henry James, briefly Vonnegut, Samuel Butler and Raymond Chandler.Frankfurtat the Main and. A.: Long. 1998.ISBN 3-631-33729-9
• Bo Pettersson: The world according tons briefly Vonnegut. Moral paradoxically and narrative form. Åbo: Åbo Akademis Förl. 1994. ISBN 952-9616-45-7
• ASP B. Jetty-corroded, Julie Huffman Klinkowitz and Jerome Klinkowitz: Briefly Vonnegut. A comprehensive bibliography.Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books.1987.ISBN 0-208-02071-3
• Barbara Sinic: The socialcritical function of the grotesque one. Analyzed on the basis the novels of Vonnegut, Irving, Boyle, Grass, rose villages and Widmer. Frankfurt/Main: Long. 2003. (= Viennese of contributions to Komparatistik and Rome anise TIC; 12) ISBN 3-631-50649-X
• EH Maria Streier: Threat of humans by natural science andTechnology? Answers in the novel work (1952-69) of briefly Vonnegut. Frankfurt/Main and. A.: Long. 1984. (= Mainzer studies to America sneezing TIC; 19) ISBN 3-8204-5180-3
• John Tomedi: Briefly Vonnegut. Broomall, Pa: Chelsea House. 2004. ISBN 0-7910-7848-5

Web on the left of

Wikiquote: Briefly Vonnegut - quotations

• briefly Vonnegut'sWebsite
• bibliography of all titles
• for the filming of BREAK nearly OF champion with Bruce Willis and Albert Finney
• for the filming of “slaughterhouse 5”
• CBC interview with briefly Vonnegut of 01. February 2006 interview with Anna Maria Tremonti in THE CURRENT on English (material Player necessarily)
• video tie-clip out“DAILY SHOW” September 2005 video tie-clip Jon Stewart and briefly Vonnegut in “The DAILY show”