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Kurt Vonnegut
Standard Name: Vonnegut, Kurt,, Jr
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Christine Brooke-Rose | The subjects of CBR
's exploration here are the idea of genre, science fiction in relation to realism, the act of interpretation, and syntactic complementarity. Brooke-Rose considers these issues in relation to the fictional... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Zadie Smith | Her subjects include George Eliot
's Middlemarch, Zora Neale Hurston
, Franz Kafka
, Vonnegut
and Salinger
as cult figures, Roland Barthes
and Vladimir Nabokov
(pitted against each other as attacker and booster of... |
| Textual Production | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Dangerous Visions series was already established. Other contributors to this volume included Joanna Russ
, Josephine Saxton
, James Tiptree, Jr (real name Alice Sheldon
), Ray Bradbury
, and Kurt Vonnegut
. Le... |
| Textual Production | Anne Sexton | AS
felt pressed for money as she was writing these poetic narratives, thinking about the looming burden of college bills for her elder daughter. She worked on this book in conjunction with the next two... |
| Friends, Associates | Penelope Mortimer | PM
counted among her friends and acquaintances many well-known names from literature and the cinema. In Rome she met Bette Davis
and Dirk Bogarde
. In New York she met director Alain Resnais
and producers... |
Timeline
13-14 February 1945: Somewhere between 50,000 and 135,000 people...
National or international item
13-14 February 1945
Somewhere between 50,000 and 135,000 people were killed during the British bombing of Dresden.
1946: William Joyce, born in New York of an Irish-American...
National or international item
1946
William Joyce
, born in New York of an Irish-American father and English mother, was hanged for treason on account of his pro-Nazi broadcasts during the war.
Texts
Vonnegut, Kurt, and Laurie Clancy. “Running Experiments Off: An Interview”. Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, edited by William Rodney Allen, Mississippi University Press, 1988, pp. 46-56.