Bøger af Kurt Vonnegut

In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of American society, releasing some of his best-loved literary creations on the scene.

50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITIONAs a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come.

It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will - not to mention the torture of reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades.

One of America's greatest writers gives us his unique perspective on our fears of nuclear annihilation

From the author of Slaughterhouse 5.

He is a true artist' New York Times Book ReviewBilly Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time.

Player Piano is the debut novel from one of history's most innovative authors, published on Vonnegut's 100th birthday.In Player Piano, the first of Vonnegut's wildly funny and deadly serious novels, automata have dramatically reduced the need for America's work force. Ten years after the introduction of these robot labourers, the only people still working are the engineers and their managers, who live in Ilium; everyone else lives in Homestead, an impoverished part of town characterised by purposelessness and mass produced houses.Paul Proteus is the manager of Ilium Works. While grateful to be held in high regard, Paul begins to feel uneasy about his position - especially after a trip to Homestead. Eventually, Paul makes the decision to rebel against all he's been given, inciting seismic repercussions...'His black logic...gives us something to laugh about and much to fear' New York Times Book ReviewWatch the documentary about his life - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time - on Prime

Kurt Vonneguts verdensberømte og semi-selvbiografiske antikrigsroman i stilsikker tegneserieform. Bogens hovedperson Billy Pilgrim tages under Anden Verdenskrig til fange af tyskerne. I lighed med Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) selv havner han i fangenskab i Dresden, overlever de allieredes tilintetgørende brandbombning af byen i 1945 og kan efter krigens afslutning vende hjem til USA. Men så ophører lighederne mellem hovedpersonen og forfatteren også, for Billy Pilgrim er blevet løsgjort fra tiden og kastes frem og tilbage gennem tid og rum. Det ene øjeblik befinder han sig på en optikerkongres i 1960’erne for straks efter at være tilbage i Anden Verdenskrigs Tyskland. Og som om det ikke var kaotisk nok: Billy kidnappes af rumvæsener og føres til planeten Tralfamadore, hvor han lærer sandheden om tiden og døden at kende. Kurt Vonneguts sorte humor, satire og eksistentielle overvejelser i romanen fra 1969 (udgivet af Gyldendal på dansk 1970) formidles med både følsomhed og originalitet af den canadiske forfatter Ryan North (f. 1980) og den spanske tegner Albert Monteys (f. 1971) i denne første tegneserieadaptation nogen sinde. De er tro mod originalen, men deres eminente forståelse af tegneseriens fortælletekniske muligheder får Vonneguts mesterværk til at slå gnister. Vonnegut dukker også selv om ligesom blandt andre Kilgore Trout. ”En ufattelig præstation og virtuost formidlet ... vil indgyde uindviede læsere såvel som de mest trofaste fans af Vonneguts værk ærefrygt.” – Marguerite Bennett (Batwoman) ”Ryan North destillerer Vonneguts velkendte rytmik til en perfekt rude-til-rude-koreografi, og Albert Monteys behændige tegninger tilføjer veloplagte nye vinkler til den samfundsundergravende kosmiske filosoferen og sørgmodige sorte humor, der har gjort romanen elsket af generationer.” – Evan Narcisse (Rise of the Black Panther) ”Formentlig den bedste version af historien nogen sinde. For pokker, det er godt.” – Polygon.com ”North og Monteys har ophøjet historien på en original og smuk måde ved at udnytte tegneseriens fortælleteknik til det yderste ... De har skabt en standard, som er uden for vores andres rækkevidde. Jeg ... hader dem.” – Chip Zdarsky (Sex Criminals, Spider-Man) ”En uomtvistelig kraftpræstation, på samme tid respektfuld og dristig over for materialet.” – Kieron Gillen (Young Avengers, Iron Man) ”Enestående.” – Brian K. Vaughan (Saga) ”Den bedste og mest effektive tegneserieadaptation af en litterær roman i mands minde.” – Library Journal, USA Udgivelsen er støttet af Statens Kunstfond.

'Black satire of the highest polish' GuardianWhilst awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison, Howard W. Can a black or white verdict ever be reached in a world that's a gazillion shades of grey?'After Vonnegut, everything else seems a bit tame' Spectator

He is Dr Wilbur Daffodil-II Swain and Slapstick or Lonesome No More! is his story - one of monstrous twins, orgies, revenge, golf, utopian schemes, and very little tooth brushing. In this post-apocalyptic black comedy - dedicated to Laurel and Hardy - Vonnegut is at his most hilarious, grotesque, and personal.

A never-before-seen collection of deeply personal love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter"If ever I do write anything of length-good or bad-it will be written with you in mind."Kurt Vonnegut's eldest daughter, Edith, was cleaning out her mother's attic when she stumbled upon a dusty, aged box. Inside, she discovered an unexpected treasure: more than two hundred love letters written by Kurt to Jane, spanning the early years of their relationship.The letters begin in 1941, after the former schoolmates reunited at age nineteen, sparked a passionate summer romance, and promised to keep in touch when they headed off to their respective colleges. And they did, through Jane's conscientious studying and Kurt's struggle to pass chemistry. The letters continue after Kurt dropped out and enlisted in the army in 1943, while Jane in turn graduated and worked for the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C. They also detail Kurt's deployment to Europe in 1944, where he was taken prisoner of war and declared missing in action, and his eventual safe return home and the couple's marriage in 1945.Full of the humor and wit that we have come to associate with Kurt Vonnegut, the letters also reveal little-known private corners of his mind. Passionate and tender, they form an illuminating portrait of a young soldier's life in World War II as he attempts to come to grips with love and mortality. And they bring to light the origins of Vonnegut the writer, when Jane was the only person who believed in and supported him supported him, the young couple having no idea how celebrated he would become.A beautiful full-color collection of handwritten letters, notes, sketches, and comics, interspersed with Edith's insights and family memories, Love, Kurt is an intimate record of a young man growing into himself, a fascinating account of a writer finding his voice, and a moving testament to the life-altering experience of falling in love.

Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century's foremost imaginative geniuses. More than half of Vonnegut's output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all together. Organized thematically-"War," "Women," "Science," "Romance," "Work Ethic versus Fame and Fortune," "Behavior," "The Band Director" (those stories featuring Lincoln High's band director and nice guy George Hemholtz), and "Futuristic"-these ninety-eight stories were written from 1941 to 2007, and include those Vonnegut published in magazines and collected in Welcome to the Monkey House, Bagombo Snuff Box, and other books; here for the first time five previously unpublished stories; as well as a handful of others that were published online and read by few. During his lifetime Vonnegut published fewer than half of the stories he wrote, his agent telling him in 1958 upon the rejection of a particularly strong story, "Save it for the collection of your works which will be published someday when you become famous. Which may take a little time." Selected and introduced by longtime Vonnegut friends and scholars Dan Wakefield and Jerome Klinkowitz, Complete Stories puts Vonnegut's great wit, humor, humanity, and artistry on full display. An extraordinary literary feast for new readers, Vonnegut fans, and scholars alike.

Dr Felix Hoenikker is the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to mankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh.

Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of G.W. Bush from the author of Slaughterhouse 5

Launched in November, Dell's Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

"Everything was perfectly swell. There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars. All diseases were conquered. So was old age." So begins '2 B R 0 2 B', a clever short story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, the author of far more famous works such as Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, and many others. The story first appeared in the January 1962 issue of the pulp sci-fi magazine Worlds of If. Its modest utopian beginnings quickly open up to an underlying dystopia: the only way to maintain the perfect balance on this seemingly perfect far-future Earth is to limit the population to precisely forty million souls. But old age has been beaten. To maintain eternal happiness, should birth control fail, one must acquiesce to either infanticide or suicide - choose your pleasure. Those few adults who decide they want to die are encouraged to call the Federal Bureau of Termination's hotline at 2 B R 0 2 B (pronounced 2 B or naught 2 B) and make an appointment for euthanasia, thus opening the door for the birth of a new human. No one is forced into death, unless you count social pressure, although there is plenty of that in a society where the most admired man on the planet is Dr Hitz, "responsible for setting up the very first gas chamber in Chicago."

Stuck in your feelings? You're not the only one. "Typical Cynical" is the first creation from breakout author Thor P. Doe. Explore the depths of 20th Century cynicism with three selections of short stories by author Kurt Vonnegut. Stories include: "The Big Trip Up Yonder", "2 B R 0 2 B", and "Harrison Bergeron". Thor P. Doe also includes a careful selection of delightful words from "A Cynic's Word Book" by Ambrose Bierce.

Everything was perfectly swell. There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars. All diseases were conquered. So was old age. Death, barring accidents, was an adventure for volunteers.

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2BR02B is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the digest magazine Worlds of If Science Fiction, January 1962, and collected in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999). The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B", referencing the famous phrase "to be, or not to be" from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. In this story, the title refers to the telephone number one dials to schedule an assisted suicide with the Federal Bureau of Termination. Vonnegut's 1965 novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater describes a story by this name, attributing it to his recurring character Kilgore Trout, although the plot summary given is closer in nature to the eponymous tale from the short-story collection Welcome to the Monkey House. -wikipedia

"Everything was perfectly swell. There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars. All diseases were conquered. So was old age. Death, barring accidents, was an adventure for volunteers. The population of the United States was stabilized at forty-million souls." "2 B R 0 2 B" is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in 1962, The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B", referencing the famous phrase "to be, or not to be" from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. In the story, the title refers to the telephone number one dials to schedule an assisted suicide with the Federal Bureau of Termination. The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans, and population control is used to limit the population of the United States to forty million. This is maintained through a combination of infanticide and government-assisted suicide - in short, in order for someone to be born, someone must first volunteer to die. As a result, births are few and far between, and deaths occur primarily by accident. "2 B R 0 2 B" was the basis for the 2016 Canadian short film 2BR02B To Be or Naught to Be directed by Marco Checa Garcia which premiered at the Sci-Fi-London festival in April 2016. The story was also the basis for another 2016 short film "2BR02B" directed by Tom Morash, and produced by Megan Jordan with Gold Leaf Films. Kurt Vonnegut was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions. He was also known for his humanist beliefs and being honorary president of the American Humanist Association.