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The Vonnegut Effect (Paperback)
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The Vonnegut Effect (Paperback)
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A defining analysis of the entire span of Kurt Vonnegut's fiction
Kurt Vonnegut is one of the few American writers since Mark Twain
to have won and sustained a great popular acceptance while boldly
introducing new themes and forms on the literary cutting edge. This
is the "Vonnegut effect" that Jerome Klinkowitz finds unique among
postmodernist authors. In this innovative study of the author's
fiction, Klinkowitz examines the forces in American life that have
made Vonnegut's works possible. Vonnegut shared with readers a
world that includes the expansive timeline from the Great
Depression, during which his family lost their economic support,
through the countercultural revolt of the 1960s, during which his
fiction first gained prominence. Vonnegut also explored the growth
in recent decades of America's sway in art, which his fiction
celebrates, and geopolitics, which his novels question. A pioneer
in Vonnegut studies, Jerome Klinkowitz offers The Vonnegut Effect
as a thorough treatment of the author's fiction--a canon covering
more than a half century and comprising twenty books. Considering
both Vonnegut's methods and the cultural needs they have served,
Klinkowitz explains how those works came to be written and
concludes with an assessment of the author's place in American
fiction.
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