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Hace 8 horas · By Kurt Vonnegut. For decades, Kurt Vonnegut struggled and failed to write what he called, ironically, his “famous Dresden book”. Captured by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, he was a pow in Saxony’s capital during the firebombing of February 1945. Vonnegut listened from an underground slaughterhouse as the bombs rained down.
Hace 8 horas · Polynices winds up at the court of King Adrastus in the city of Argos. Along with another royal exile from a different city, Tydeus, he cools his heels for a while, but is always dreaming of the chance to go and wrest control of the city from his no-good brother. Finally, a plan is hatched by Polynices and Tydeus to get their thrones back, by ...
I remember, I think in BoC, a Kilgore Trout story that Vonnegut describes as being about a planet where the people wanted to find the purpose of life & started creating machines to do all the unimportant things. In the end, the machines did everything & people withered away & never found that purpose. Bonus points if you can find the quote!
Hace 8 horas · ‘Well, there’s a Kurt Vonnegut quote I like,’ Longo explained shortly before the film’s release, ‘something about when you pretend to be someone long enough, one day you’ll be that person. I was hoping that’d be true of this experience.
Hace 8 horas · Berühmte Autoren wie George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams oder Margaret Atwood widmen sich in ihren viel beachteten speculative fictions alternativen Wirklichkeiten, in denen gesellschaftliche Umbauprozesse im Sinne einer oft faschistischen, elitären Ordnung entweder möglich oder tatsächlich bereits passiert sind.
Hace 8 horas · Poète, anarchiste, émigré (1876-1953)” Quando siete felici, fateci caso di Kurt Vonnegut Brescia: mancano case in affitto. “lavoratori costretti a vivere in dormitorio e per strada” denuncia “diritti per tutti” Una sinistra meticcia per vivere meglio.
Hace 8 horas · In his book "The Western Canon", literary critic Harold Bloom includes Brave New World, Stanisław Lem's Solaris, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and The Left Hand of Darkness as culturally and aesthetically significant works of western literature, though Lem actively spurned the Western label of "science fiction" while Vonnegut was more commonly classified as a postmodernist or satirist.
