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Since the publication of his first short stories in the 1950s, Kurt Vonnegut has enjoyed much popular acclaim and has, since the 1970s, gained growing amounts of attention from the scholarly community. In the course of his career, he has become increasingly concerned with visual images. While such imagery occurs in his short fiction and novels, he has also written plays, in which ideas are visually represented on the stage. In recent years, he has devoted more and more of his time and energy to graphic art, producing paintings that are then silk screened. The contributors to this volume look at the visual images created by Vonnegut in his literary art, along with the images and representations of his thought that increasingly are being brought to life in other media.
Much of Vonnegut's present significance, his talents as a mythmaker, and his impulse toward visual imagery were anticipated by Leslie Fiedler in The Divine Stupidity of Kurt Vonnegut, published in the September 1970 issue of
Esquire. That essay is reprinted here as a prescient introduction to the volume. The essays that follow look at comic elements in Vonnegut's science fiction, the representation of authors in his works, and the translation of his writings into film. The book also examines Vonnegut's graphic art and includes photos of several of his works.
Table des matières
Introduction
The Divine Stupidity of Kurt Vonnegut by Leslie A. Fielder
Hurting 'til It Laughs by Peter J. Reed
It's All Play-Acting by Michelle Persell
The Paradox of Awareness and Language in Vonnegut's Fiction by Loree Rackstraw
Kurt Vonnegut's Bitter Fool: Kilgore Trout by Peter J. Reed
Mother Night: Who's Pretending by Marc Leeds
Mother Night: Fiction into Film by Jerome Klinkowitw
Vonnegut on Film by Jerry Holt
The Morning after Mother Night by Robert B. Weide
The Boys of Mother Night by Nancy Kaptianoff
Pilgrim's Process by Eric Simenson
In Search of Slaughterhouse-Five by Julie A. Hibbard
Unstuck in Time: Simultaneity as a Foundation for Vonnegut's Chrono-Synclastic Infundiula and Other Nonlinear Time Structures by Sharon Sieber
The Apotheosis of Philanthropy: Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Donald E. Morse
Kurt and Joe: The Artistic Collaboration of Kurt Vonnegut and Joe Petro III by John Dinsmore and Ollie Lyon
Graphics by Kurt Vonnegut by Peter J. Reed
Index
A propos de l'auteur
MARC LEEDS the author of
The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: An Authorized Compendium (1994) and the coeditor of
The Vonnegut Chronicles: Interviews and Essays (1996), both available from Greenwood Press.
PETER J. REED is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of
Writers for the 70s: Kurt Vonnegut (1972), the first full-length study of the work of Kurt Vonnegut. Since then, he has written many essays on Vonnegut. He is the author of
The Short Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut (1997) and the coeditor of
The Vonnegut Chronicles: Interviews and Essays (1996), both available from Greenwood Press.
