Description

The goal of Breaking Down Vonnegut is to clarify some essential facts about Kurt Vonnegut s life and to address the themes underlying his imaginary worlds. Those themes, often cloaked in science fiction, historical parallels, and social science conundrums, address the major questions of life: the values by which we choose to live. Breaking Down Vonnegut will feature an overview of Vonnegut s life and a dive of Vonnegut and the war. The book will showcase the multiple genres in Vonnegut s world; a brief thematic tour through Vonnegut s short fiction; exposition of the underlying structure that repeats in every Vonnegut novel; a look into Vonnegut s life after Slaughterhouse Five; and reading Kurt Vonnegut today–