HOCUS POCUS
'Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and more than a little impatient with his own country' - New York Times Book Review
Some get all the luck - but not Eugene Debs Hartke. Ex-Vietnam vet, ex-college professor, and now a TB-stricken inmate at Tarkington State Reformatory, his life has been warped by one ludicrous farce after another. Here, on scraps of paper pilfered from the prison library, he recounts his own story for posterity, revealing the hypocrisy and injustices of a world that just doesn't want him to thrive.
KURT VONNEGUT
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. An army intelligence scout during the Second World War, he was captured by the Germans and witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. After the war he worked as a police reporter, an advertising copywriter and a public relations man for General Electric. His first novel Player Piano 1952 achieved underground success. Cat's Cradle 1963 was hailed by Graham Greene as 'one of the best novels of the year by one of the ablest living authors'. His eighth book, Slaughterhouse-Five was published in 1969 and was a literary and commercial success, and was made into a film in 1972. Vonnegut is the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.
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VONNEGUT KURT
Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007 publicó su primera novela en 1952. Desde entonces, y hasta su muerte, su obra no dejó de desconcertar a la crítica «oficial». Incapaces de clasificar al autor que, con su estilo directo, de frases concisas, parágrafos breves y lenguaje sencillo, se atrevía no solo a plantearse las preguntas más trascendentales ¿quiénes somos? ¿de dónde venimos?, etc. , sino a encontrar las respuestas, los sabios lo relegaron al universo menor de la ciencia ficción, «allí donde van a parar los escritores que, además de escribir, saben cómo funciona una nevera», como diría el propio Vonnegut.
