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Cargando... Slapstick (1976 original; edición 2011)por Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Información de la obraPayasadas, ¡o nunca más solos! (Spanish Edition) por Kurt Vonnegut (1976)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. “Nations could never acknowledge their own wars as tragedies, but that families not only could but had to.” At once, this story seems like a dystopianic work of art. But the story from the narrative of an old, ugly, and divorced President of United States with 2-meters height with six fingers and four nipples, also with tons of memories refusing to fade, is actually some rare type of literature work of art with utopianic theme. Yes, Slapstick or Lonesome no More is a story which tells an autobiography of Dr Wilbur Daffodil-II Swain, the President of United States that lived in the lobby of the Empire State Building which in his prime time succeedingly led his nations into a family, without realizing that he was a drug-addict. President Wilbur believed that all evil things the people had done was because they were all lonely and tired with their lonesome. Thus, he created a program for his campaign when he was running for the President. His campaign was Lonesome No More, a program when everyone get a new middle name from random natural objects with number from 1 to 20. Those with the same middle name have to be a new family under the middle name and all they had to do is to take care of each other as relatives. President Wilbur made this program with his deceased twins sister: Eliza Mellon Swain. Wilbur himself had the sacred middle name in which made him creating the relatives program. Because he and his sister was considered as monsters since they were a child by their own parents and they were exiled from the society since they were a child, Wilbur and Eliza wanted to have a family outside of their own family, so they felt like they belong to something, or to someone. This story is interesting because as it was told as an autobiography of some old President, but with the prolog of epilogue from Vonnegut, we can tell that he was like creating his own autobiography. Vonnegut was an American author and although he wasn’t a president of USA, putting Wilbur Daffodil-II Swain as a president somehow could make his opinion and critics to be louder. In the story, there were also plagues called “The Albanian Flu” and “The Green Death” which took people’s lives. The source of “The Green Death” later was known as the microscopic Chinese people and the Americans had ingested or inhaled them. In the earlier part of the story it was also told that Wilbur and Eliza’s parents were saying that Chinese defeats Americans in part of intelligences. I believe that it was Vonnegut’s critics about Americans perspectives towards Chinese, while the lonesome-no-more campaign is his hopes for Western civilization, that no matter how bad it will be ruined, humanity could build it back again. Another amazing part of this story is about Vonnegut’s takes about afterlife, for how boring it is. He didn’t believe that closeness with God would make loneliness erased, so Wilbur chose to erase lonesome as his campaign.
A brief outline of this lesser-known novel’s plot will help the listener better understand the interview. Even as children, protagonist Wilbur Swain and his twin Eliza are monstrous in appearance: freakishly tall, awkward, sporting six fingers on each hand, possessed of “Neanderthal features.” Their distressed parents at first consider them of subnormal intelligence, and remain ashamed of them even after the twins reveal their precocious theories about gravity, evolution, and extended families. The parents soon take the advice of an obviously twisted child psychologist and separate the twins. They are of course bereft without each other, but get back together as adults to publish a book on good child rearing. (Vonnegut reveals to Miller that his model for Wilbur Swain was Vonnegut’s friend Dr. Benjamin Spock, of baby-book fame.) Long into the future in a decaying U.S.A., Wilbur runs for president under the slogan “Lonesome no more.” He wins and takes office, but his creation of artificial extended families for every American can’t stop the demise of a society under a twin assault by microscopic Chinese, who have found a way to shrink themselves so they can invisibly invade the U.S. , and by microscopic invading Martians who, when inhaled by humans, give us a disease called the “Green Death.” Whatever it is, one is left feeling empty by "Slapstick," Emptiness, conveyed with grace and style, still amounts to almost nothing. That is why, for all the new chic skill Mr. Vonnegut has brought to his latest novel, it still seems as if he has given up storytelling after all. Distinciones
Refugiado en las ruinas del Empire State, Wilbur Rockefeller Swain, médico de profesión, monstruo de nacimiento y el último presidente de los Estados Unidos, repasa la historia de su vida y la de su país como si fueran una sola. Y en ese repaso no puede faltar Eliza, su hermana gemela: “No éramos idiotas… Éramos algo nuevo. Éramos neandertaloides”. Un día, los gemelos descubren que, cuando sus cuerpos se tocan, sus mentes se funden en una única mente genial. Rechazados por sus padres, aislados de la sociedad, inventan una fórmula para terminar con la soledad en el mundo. Kurt Vonnegut, uno de los más grandes escritores estadounidenses del siglo XX, despliega en esta novela su talento incomparable para reflexionar sobre el tema que lo obsesionó siempre: las catástrofes que causan los hombres en su afán por alcanzar el bienestar y la felicidad. (Descripción del editor). No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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