Книга: VONNEGUT, KURT «KURT VONNEGUT»

KURT VONNEGUT

This extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Kurt Vonnegut's fiction. These letters written over a sixty-year period are funny, moving and full of the same uncanny wisdom that has endeared his work to readers worldwide. Included in this comprehensive volume: the letter a twenty-two-year-old Vonnegut wrote home immediately upon being freed from a German POW camp which became the seed of his masterpiece Slaughterhouse-Five; wry dispatches from years as a struggling writer slowly finding an audience and then suddenly dealing with international fame in middle age; brilliant, razor-sharp letters of protest to school boards that had tried to ban his work; intimate remembrances penned to high school classmates, friends and family; letters to contemporaries like Norman Mailer, Gail Godwin, Gunter Grass, and Bernard Malamud. Sometimes biting and ironical, sometimes achingly sweet, and always alive with the unique point of view on the world that made him...

Издательство: "Dial Press Trade Paperback" (2014)

ISBN: 9780385343763

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Vonnegut, Kurt

► (n. 1922) Novelista estadounidense. En su obra narrativa presenta una visión desmitificadora de su país. Autor de La pianola (1952).

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  • Kurt Vonnegut — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (* 11. November 1922 in Indianapolis; † 11. April 2007 in New York) war ein US amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Leben 2 Künstlerisches Schaffen 3 We …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Kurt Vonnegut — 200px Vonnegut en 1990 Nacimiento 11 de noviembre de 1922 Indianápolis, EE.UU. Defunción 11 de abril de 2007 Nueva York, EE.UU …   Wikipedia Español

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