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Kurt Vonnegut
Title: Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2043 | Pages: 8.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Kurt Vonnegut
Surviving Loneliness, Depression, and Death
The themes of Kurt Vonnegut’s short stories are based upon his struggles with
depression, loneliness and death. Kurt Vonnegut’s influences came from the Great
Depression, family deaths, and also, in part, from being a prisoner of war (Bleiler, 851).
The themes of Vonnegut’s short stories include technology, and government.
Technology is used in his stories primarily about how it is very powerful, and how it is
made cruelly beyond human control. The government theme is used in Vonnegut’…showed first 85 words of 2043 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 2043 total…Writers. New York, 1999.
Magill, Frank N., ed. Critical Survey of Long Fiction. vol. 7. Hackensack, New Jersey,
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“Mad Humanist.” 1999: p.1-4. on-line. Internet. 6 Mar. 2001. Available
http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/04/27/vonnegut/
Vonnegut, Kurt. “Next Door.” Welcome to the Monkey House. Dell Publishing, New
York, New York, 1988
Vonnegut, Kurt. “The Lie.” Welcome to the Monkey House. Dell Publishing, New
York, New York, 1988
Helterman, Jeffrey, ed. American Novelists Since World War II. vol. 2. Detroit,
Michigan, 1978
Vonnegut, Kurt. Welcome to the Monkey House. New York, New York: Dell
Publishing, 1988
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