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Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007)

Autor de Matadero cinco o La cruzada de los niños

297+ Obras 180,960 Miembros 2,322 Reseñas 1,389 Preferidas

Sobre El Autor

The appeal of Kurt Vonnegut, especially to bright younger readers of the past few decades, may be attributed partly to the fact that he is one of the few writers who have successfully straddled the imaginary line between science-fiction/fantasy and "real literature." He was born in Indianapolis and mostrar más attended Cornell University, but his college education was interrupted by World War II. Captured during the Battle of the Bulge and imprisoned in Dresden, he received a Purple Heart for what he calls a "ludicrously negligible wound." After the war he returned to Cornell and then earned his M.A. at the University of Chicago.He worked as a police reporter and in public relations before placing several short stories in the popular magazines and beginning his career as a novelist. His first novel, Player Piano (1952), is a highly credible account of a future mechanistic society in which people count for little and machines for much. The Sirens of Titan (1959), is the story of a playboy whisked off to Mars and outer space in order to learn some humbling lessons about Earth's modest function in the total scheme of things. Mother Night (1962) satirizes the Nazi mentality in its narrative about an American writer who broadcasts propaganda in Germany during the war as an Allied agent. Cat's Cradle (1963) makes use of some of Vonnegut's experiences in General Electric laboratories in its story about the discovery of a special kind of ice that destroys the world. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) satirizes a benevolent foundation set up to foster the salvation of the world through love, an endeavor with, of course, disastrous results. Slaughterhouse-Five; or The Children's Crusade (1969) is the book that marked a turning point in Vonnegut's career. Based on his experiences in Dresden, it is the story of another Vonnegut surrogate named Billy Pilgrim who travels back and forth in time and becomes a kind of modern-day Everyman. The novel was something of a cult book during the Vietnam era for its antiwar sentiments. Breakfast of Champions (1973), the story of a Pontiac dealer who goes crazy after reading a science fiction novel by "Kilgore Trout," received generally unfavorable reviews but was a commercial success. Slapstick (1976), dedicated to the memory of Laurel and Hardy, is the somewhat wacky memoir of a 100-year-old ex-president who thinks he can solve society's problems by giving everyone a new middle name. In addition to his fiction, Vonnegut has published nonfiction on social problems and other topics, some of which is collected in Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974). He died from head injuries sustained in a fall on April 11, 2007. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Nota de desambiguación:

(eng) Kilgore Trout, the name of a character in several of Kurt Vonnegut's books, was later used as a pseudonym by Philip José Farmer. Vonnegut himself never wrote under or went by the name Kilgore Trout.

Obras de Kurt Vonnegut

Cuna de gato (1963) 22,309 copias
Desayuno de campeones (1974) 16,252 copias
Las sirenas de Titán (1959) 10,410 copias
Galápagos (1985) 7,700 copias
Madre noche (1961) 7,279 copias
Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) 7,143 copias
La pianola (1952) 6,824 copias
Dios le bendiga, Mr. Rosewater (1965) 6,279 copias
Cronomoto (1997) 5,410 copias
Birlibirloque (1990) 5,343 copias
Un hombre sin patria (2005) 4,876 copias
Bluebeard: a novel (1987) 4,535 copias
Jailbird (1979) 4,119 copias
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (1974) 2,127 copias
Armageddon in Retrospect (2008) 1,951 copias
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999) 1,766 copias
Fates Worse Than Death (1991) 1,031 copias
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970) 716 copias
2BR02B (1962) 659 copias
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters (2012) 399 copias
Complete Stories (2017) 192 copias
La cartera del cretino (2012) 190 copias
The Big Trip Up Yonder (1954) 181 copias
Sun Moon Star (1980) 168 copias
Canary in a Cat House (1950) 117 copias
The Petrified Ants (2009) 86 copias
Slaughterhouse-Five (2010) 83 copias
Slaughterhouse-Five [1972 film] (1972) — Novel — 63 copias
Vonnegut in America (1977) 46 copias
Basic Training (2012) 43 copias
Seven Contemporary Short Novels [Third Edition] (1997) — Contribuidor — 40 copias
Seven Contemporary Short Novels [second edition] (1969) — Contribuidor — 35 copias
The Barnhouse Effect (1950) 18 copias
FUBAR (2009) 15 copias
Welkom op de apenrots (1971) 15 copias
The Kid Nobody Could Handle (1955) 14 copias
Unready to Wear (1953) 12 copias
Der gläserne Traum (1999) 11 copias
The Lie (1962) 10 copias
Miss Temptation (1956) 9 copias
Sinbad (Singles Classic) (2016) 9 copias
The Handicapper General (1993) 9 copias
Who Am I This Time? (1961) 9 copias
The Vonnegut Quartet (1976) 9 copias
The powder-blue dragon (2008) 8 copias
Hello, Red (2009) 7 copias
Slapstick/Mother Night (1979) 6 copias
Little Drops of Water (2009) 6 copias
Slice of Life (2016) 6 copias
EPICAC [short story] (1950) 6 copias
Thanasphere 6 copias
All The King's Horses (1951) 5 copias
Next Door [short story] (1955) 5 copias
The Good Explainer (2009) 5 copias
The Nice Little People (2009) 5 copias
Ed Luby's Key Club (2009) 5 copias
Breakfast of Champions [1999 movie] (1999) — Autor — 5 copias
The Honor of a Newsboy (2009) 5 copias
The Euphio Question (1951) 5 copias
More Stately Mansions (1951) 5 copias
Where I Live (1964) 5 copias
D.P. [short story] (1953) 5 copias
Adam [short story] (1954) 5 copias
The Manned Missiles (1958) 4 copias
New Dictionary [essay] (1966) 4 copias
The Souvenir 3 copias
Hall of Mirrors 3 copias
Confido (2009) 3 copias
La sirenas de Titán (2023) 3 copias
A Song for Selma (2009) 3 copias
Compadezcan al lector (2021) 3 copias
Paldir Küldür 2 copias
Barbablù 2 copias
Hacıyatmaz (2012) 2 copias
Opowiadania wszystkie (2018) 2 copias
Klanica pet (2001) 2 copias
Cold Turkey 2 copias
Runaways 2 copias
Cats Cradle 1 copia
Cronosisma 1 copia
Galpagos 1 copia
Del 1 copia
Ülkesiz Bir Adam (2020) 1 copia
Kuşa Bak 1 copia
Utópia 14 1 copia
T B R 0 2 B 1 copia
Hokus-pokus (2022) 1 copia
Mnemonics 1 copia
Zavtrak dlia chempionov (2015) 1 copia
Bard books 1 copia
How to Write with Style (1982) 1 copia
Stories (2012) 1 copia
The Package 1 copia
Kolybel' dlia koshki (2014) 1 copia
Bode Vermelho 1 copia
Vremetres 1 copia
Oko sokolovo 1 copia
Ölümden Beter Yazgilar (2022) 1 copia
Di wu hao tu zai chang (1994) 1 copia
Daha Ne Olsun (2014) 1 copia
Enayinin Portföyü (2016) 1 copia

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Los idus de marzo (1948) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones938 copias
The World Treasury of Science Fiction (1989) — Contribuidor — 891 copias
The Seventh Cross (1942) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones796 copias
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 (2006) — Compositor — 757 copias
The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy (1996) — Contribuidor — 631 copias
The Future Dictionary of America (2004) — Contribuidor — 627 copias
Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories (2011) — Contribuidor — 506 copias
The Flying Sorcerers: More Comic Tales of Fantasy (1997) — Contribuidor — 506 copias
Free to Be... You and Me (1974) — Contribuidor — 484 copias
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Contribuidor — 446 copias
The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016) — Contribuidor — 417 copias
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992) — Contribuidor — 369 copias
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 (2010) — Contribuidor — 302 copias
Grand Central Winter (1998) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones292 copias
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Contribuidor — 288 copias
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Contribuidor — 269 copias
The Road to Science Fiction #3: From Heinlein to Here (1979) — Contribuidor — 243 copias
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980) — Contribuidor — 196 copias
World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 (1969) — Contribuidor — 179 copias
Frankenstein insólito (1991) — Contribuidor — 167 copias
The Ruins of the Earth (1973) — Contribuidor — 162 copias
The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 (2010) — Contribuidor — 154 copias
Connoisseur's Science Fiction (1964) — Contribuidor — 145 copias
The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work (2010) — Contribuidor — 142 copias
Stories of the Sea (2010) — Contribuidor — 139 copias
Space Odyssey (1983) — Contribuidor — 138 copias
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction (1998) — Contribuidor — 134 copias
Animal Farm and Related Readings (1900) — Contribuidor — 109 copias
An ABC of Science Fiction (1809) — Contribuidor — 103 copias
The Frankenstein Omnibus (1994) — Contribuidor — 103 copias
The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2000) — Contribuidor — 91 copias
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 11th Series (1962) — Contribuidor — 89 copias
Science Fiction: The Future (1971) — Contribuidor — 84 copias
CYBERSEX (1996) — Contribuidor — 77 copias
Back to School (1986) — Actor — 72 copias
The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack (2012) — Contribuidor — 70 copias
The Unabridged Mark Twain (1976) — Introducción — 55 copias
Assignment in Tomorrow: An Anthology (1954) — Contribuidor — 54 copias
Science Fiction (1973) — Autor — 40 copias
Long Walk to Forever {play} (1960) — Original story — 31 copias
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction (2011) — Contribuidor — 30 copias
How to Use the Power of the Printed Word (1985) — Autor — 30 copias
Human Machines: An Anthology of Stories about Cyborgs (1975) — Contribuidor — 30 copias
Great World War II Stories: 50th Anniversary Collection (1989) — Contribuidor — 29 copias
The Fiend (1971) — Contribuidor — 23 copias
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contribuidor — 22 copias
Mother Night [1996 film] (1996) — Author of original — 18 copias
Love Stories (1975) — Contribuidor — 18 copias
Next Door {play} (1994) — Author of original — 17 copias
Out of This World (1990) — Contribuidor — 16 copias
Masterpieces of Science Fiction (1978) — Autor — 15 copias
Storia del piccolo Mouck (1997) — Traductor, algunas ediciones9 copias
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1994 (1993) — Author "So it goes." — 9 copias
Cutting Edges: Young American Fiction for the 70's (1973) — Contribuidor — 8 copias
The New Windmill Book of Stories from Different Genres (1998) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
The Short Story & You (1987) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
Playboy Magazine | September 1968 | Erika Toth (1968) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
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Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
Vonnegut, Kurt
Nombre legal
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
Fecha de nacimiento
1922-11-11
Fecha de fallecimiento
2007-04-11
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento
New York, New York, USA
Causa de fallecimiento
brain injuries incurred several weeks prior from a fall at his New York brownstone home
Lugares de residencia
New York, New York, USA
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
Educación
University of Chicago
Cornell University
Carnegie Institute of Technology
University of Tennessee
Ocupaciones
journalist
novelist
essayist
playwright
screenwriter
Relaciones
Vonnegut, Mark (son)
Vonnegut, Edith (daughter)
Krementz, Jill (spouse)
Organizaciones
American Humanist Association
U.S. Army (WWII|POW)
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Premios y honores
State Author of New York/Edith Wharton Citation of Merit (2001-03)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award [1970]
Humanist of the Year [1992]
Asteroid Namesake [2539]
Purple Heart
Prisoner of War Medal (mostrar todos 8)
Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2015)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2001)
Biografía breve
Kurt Vonnegut Jr est né à Indianapolis en 1922. Prisonnier de guerre à Dresde pendant cinq mois, il y fut témoin du bombardement de 1945. De retour aux États-Unis, il se mit à écrire. Son roman le plus célèbre, Abattoir 5, resta pendant trois mois en tête des best-sellers américains.
Aviso de desambiguación
Kilgore Trout, the name of a character in several of Kurt Vonnegut's books, was later used as a pseudonym by Philip José Farmer. Vonnegut himself never wrote under or went by the name Kilgore Trout.

Miembros

Debates

Sci-Fi Story, People Live Forever en Name that Book (agosto 2017)
November 2013: Kurt Vonnegut en Monthly Author Reads (noviembre 2014)
1001 Group Read-December, 2012: Slaughterhouse Five en 1001 Books to read before you die (enero 2013)

Reseñas

Al parecer, Madre noche es la única novela de Kurt Vonnegut sin ningún componente de ciencia ficción, algo que importa bastante poco porque el resultado es magnífico. Las tramas que se van presentando están perfectamente hilvanadas y mediante un buen forro de flashbacks, entretejidos cada pocos capítulos, se va revelando información al lector, que no tiene posibilidad alguna de escapar de la narración a medida que la historia va tomando forma. Relatos bélicos y cuentos de espías, nazis alemanes y nazis americanos, humor negro y personajes absurdos, paranoia y guerra fría. Un libro que está además bordado con un montón de frases redondas, esas que te parecen increíbles por la sencillez de su redacción y lo atinado del juicio que expresan, pero que lamentas que no se te hayan ocurrido a ti.… (más)
 
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Natt90 | 90 reseñas más. | Mar 30, 2023 |
A sus cincuenta años Philboyd Studge, autor de novelas altamente corrosivas y molestas para los amantes de la corrección política, ha decidido que va a encarar su obra magna. En ella reunirá todos los personajes de sus obras anteriores y concentrará todas aquellas ideas que le quedaron en el tintero. Para tal empresa echará mano de su personaje favorito, el también cincuentón Kilgore Trout, escritor de novelas de ciencia ficción y lo acompañará de Dwayne Hoover, exitoso vendedor de coches, quien cree haber descubierto en las páginas de Trout una importante revelación personal.… (más)
 
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Natt90 | 166 reseñas más. | Mar 29, 2023 |
Mientras las bacterias más poderosas van conquistando el Universo, según el plan urdido por los sabios de Tralfamodore, Eugene Debs Hartke, teniente coronel en Vietnam, ateo, profesor de niños riquísimos con problemas de aprendizaje, tutor de reclusos negros en una cárcel regentada -con fines lucrativos- por los japoneses, tañedor de campanas, practicante asiduo de las más entusiastas variantes del adulterio, incapaz de soltar una palabrota, gran matador de hombres, está en espera de juicio por razones que, seguramente, más tienen que ver con la publicidad política que con las leyes. Mientras, en trocitos de papel, escribe un libro con los trocitos de su vida. Por arte de Birlibirloque, se quedó sin pasado, sin presente y sin futuro. Su única esperanza es un hijo con nombre de cocktail alcohólico.… (más)
 
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Natt90 | 42 reseñas más. | Mar 21, 2023 |
Matadero Cinco o La cruzada de los niños catapultó a Kurt Vonnegut como uno de los grandes ídolos de la juventud norteamericana y se convirtió de inmediato en un clásico de la literatura contemporánea. Una historia amarga, conmovedora y a la vez divertidísima, de la inocencia confrontada con el apocalipsis, «una novela con ribetes esquizofrénico-telegráficos», en palabras de su autor. Kurt Vonnegut fue hecho prisionero en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y se encontraba en Dresde cuando esta ciudad fue bombardeada y arrasada por la aviación norteamericana; este hecho le marcó profundamente y decidió escribir un libro en torno a ese tema: "Matadero Cinco".… (más)
 
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Natt90 | 703 reseñas más. | Feb 22, 2023 |

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Obras
297
También por
83
Miembros
180,960
Popularidad
#27
Valoración
4.0
Reseñas
2,322
ISBNs
1,589
Idiomas
38
Favorito
1,389

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