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The Short Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut (Hardcover, New)
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The Short Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut (Hardcover, New)
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Kurt Vonnegut's career as a novelist encompasses virtually the
whole second half of the twentieth century, and his novels are
among the most widely read in America. Yet Vonnegut enjoyed another
successful career as a short story writer. His short fiction
brought him much acclaim in the early years of his writing career
and made him visible to a very large audience. His stories were
illustrated by some of the best artists in the business and were
featured prominently in leading magazines such as Collier's, the
Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, and
Argosy. Commentary on Vonnegut has generally separated his career
as a novelist from his career as a short story writer. This volume
provides a detailed analysis of Vonnegut's short fiction and shows
that his short stories are an integral part of his overall canon.
The short stories do not simply precede Vonnegut's novels. There is
an extensive overlap of the publication of his novels and his
shorter works. In writing short fiction, Vonnegut learned and
practiced many of the skills and techniques that he employs in his
novels. This volume begins by examining the relationship of the
short fiction to the larger body of Vonnegut's writings. It then
examines Vonnegut's earliest training as a writer, during his high
school years and as a college journalist. The chapters that follow
are then devoted to later periods in his life, the development of
his short stories, and the recurrence of their techniques and
content in Vonnegut's novels. The study concludes with a
reassessment of the importance of the short story to Vonnegut's
canon.
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