![]() As far as the stars, the book itself probably only warrants a Vonnegut 3-star (except for the fact that the autobiographical introduction is so good, I'm tossing in another star because, well, I can). Plus, it is hard to avoid a book that uses the phrase “Why don't you take a flying at a rolling doughnut? Why don't you take a flying at the mooooooooooooon?” often and with literary abandon. There are other, stronger Vonneguts where I could have started, but I'm also trying to go through my Library of America Vonnegut: Novels 1976-1985. What better way than a book about loneliness, incest (perhaps not, or technically yes, but also not), disease, the destruction of America, and the Church of Jesus Christ the Kidnapped. It seems in an era of Donald Trump I'm going to need as many absurdist tools on my belt as possible. It has been 30 years since I went on a huge Vonnegut tear. So, I've decided to read a lot of the Vonnegut novels he's going to be reading before the end of the year too. This is what happens when daddy is an absurdist, but rules like a fascist King. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one. He is still on the hook for the other $80. Read Mother Night A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut available from Rakuten Kobo. Every book he reads, drops his big OWE down by $10, up to $60. I'm letting him buy down the debt (to me) by reading 6 Vonnegut novels before the end of the year. The first of these names mentioned is Paul Joseph Goebels. And Vonnegut alludes to many of the celebrated names of the war throughout this novel. “And how did we then face the odds, of man's rude slapstick, yes, and God's? Quite at home and unafraid, Thank-you, in a game our dreams remade.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! My 15-ear-old son broke the screen on his iPhone 6s. World War II, holding a immense impact on Vonnegut’s life, has rather a big function in Mother Night. Slapstick is a clear demonstration of the profound alliance of comedy and tragedy which, when Vonnegut is working close to his true sensibility, become indistinguishable. Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral. ![]() But is he really guilty In this brilliant audiobook rife with true gallows humor, Kurt Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of grey with a verdict that will haunt us all. Vonnegut's tragic life - like the tragic lives of Laurel, Hardy, Buster Keaten and other exemplars of slapstick comedy - is the true center of a work whose cynicism overlays a trustfulness and sense of loss which are perhaps deeper and truer than expressed in any of Vonnegut's earlier or later works. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. Slapstick becomes both product and commentary, event and self-criticism an early and influential example of contemporary "metafiction". Love and carnage intersect in a novel contrived to combine credibility and common observation critics could sense Vonnegut deliberately flouting narrative constraint or imperative in an attempt to destroy the very idea of the novel he was writing. The twins exemplify to Swain a kind of universal love he campaigns for it while troops of technologically miniaturized Chinese are launched upon America. Like their films and routines, this novel is an exercise in non-sequentiality and in the bizarre while using those devices to expose larger and terrible truths. Vonnegut dedicated this to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The story centers on brother and sister twins, children of Wilbur Swain, who are in sympathetic and (possibly) telepathic communication and who represent Vonnegut's relationship with his own sister who died young of cancer almost two decades before the book's publication. This production is part of our Audible Modern Vanguard line, a collection of important works from groundbreaking authors.Perhaps the most autobiographical (and deliberately least disciplined) of Vonnegut's novels, Slapstick (1976) is in the form of a broken family odyssey and is surely a demonstration of its eponymous title. ![]() ![]() Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense.Īs an added bonus, when you purchase any of our Audible Modern Vanguard productions of Kurt Vonnegut's books, you'll also get an exclusive Jim Atlas interview. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Kurt Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of grey with a verdict that will haunt us all. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. Get this audiobook for free when you try Audible:Īmerican Howard W. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut on Audible: ![]()
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