Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and more than a little impatient with his own country.
From ratty attic to Auschwitz and back again, Mother Night is the confessions of Howard W Campbell Jr - an American, a notorious Nazi propagandist, and a US counter-spy - not a moral man.
Kurt Vonnegut, described by Graham Greene as “One of the best living American writers”, is equally well known as an essayist and commentator on American society as he is a novelist.
Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines.
A global timequake occurs on 13th February, 2001. The universe suffers a crisis of conscience and decides to shrink back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of déjá-vu and a total loss of free will...
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) is a rare opportunity to experience Kurt Vonnegut speaking in his own voice about his own life, his views of the world, his writing, and the writing of others.
Ty - edinstvennoe suschestvo so svobodnoj volej! Kak tebe eto nravitsja? - eti stroki prochital Duejn Guver v romane pisatelja-fantasta Kilgora Trauta, skvoznogo geroja proizvedenij Vonneguta, javljajuschegosja svoego roda alter ego pisatelja.
Shumona Sinha, née a Calcutta, a appris le français a l'âge de vingt-deux ans. Depuis, elle considere cette langue comme sa "langue vitale", celle qui l'a libérée, sauvée, fait renaître.
Elle était la, immobile sur son lit, la petite phrase bien connue, trop connue : Je t’aime.Trois mots maigres et pâles, si pâles. Les sept lettres ressortaient a peine sur la blancheur des draps.
Sam the Lion runs the pool-hall, the picture house and the all-night café. Coach Popper whips his boys with towels and once took a shot at one when he disturbed his hunting.