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	New York State Writers Institute - Kurt Vonnegut Post Star Article
		Vonnegut drew lines that drooped and soared while he illustrated the good and bad circumstances of a few stories, like a Franz Kafka novel and Cinderella.
		Vonnegut proclaimed himself a humanist, which means, he said, he behaves as well as he can with no expectation of a reward, or a punishment, in the afterlife.
		Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Ind. He moved to Schenectady in 1947 when he took a job as a public relations officer for General Electric Co. "I was happy to work for General Electric back then," he said.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/poststarvonnegut.html (1114 words)

	Ilium (Kurt Vonnegut) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ilium is a fictitious town in eastern New York state, used as a setting for many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels.
		The name most likely refers to Troy, New York, which is not far from Schenectady, where Vonnegut worked for a number of years.
		North of Albany, on the same railway line, is Cohoes, longtime residence of Vonnegut's character Kilgore Trout.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ilium,_New_York (150 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Vonnegut was a prisoner of war in Dresden on February 13, 1945 when the city, a cultural center of no military value, was destroyed by Allied incendiary bombs, and in Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut, who was born on Armistice Day 1922, focuses on the particularly human madness of war.
		Vonnegut's outrage over Dresden was as much a result of the lack of attention given to this event as it was to the bloodshed, but there are no villains in Vonnegut's novels, and he fully recognizes the ambiguous connection between agent and victim.
		Vonnegut openly addresses himself in the role of creator "on a par with the Creator of the Universe," and with a Prospero-like gesture releases the characters from his earlier fiction.
	lfa.atu.edu /Brucker/Vonnegut.html (3125 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
		Vonnegut's vision of the fantastic as it occurs in everyday life was influenced by a series of tragic events as a young man. His mother committed suicide on Mother's Day in 1944 while Vonnegut was home on leave.
		In December 1944, Vonnegut was captured by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge.
		Vonnegut called the work an anti-war book, although he downplayed its influence on society, saying, "Anti-war books are as likely to stop war as anti-glacier books are to stop glaciers." He has since become one of the most popular guest lecturers at universities across the country.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-111104-vonnegut.html (1034 words)

	'Windows into the psyche of Kurt Vonnegut' by Tim Heck
		Windows into the psyche of Kurt Vonnegut Tim Heck Kurt Vonnegut is one of the preeminent writers of the later half of the twentieth century.
		Vonnegutøs early writings were not accepted as serious, mainstream literature due to their scientific nature.
		Vonnegut, along with other prisoners, was forced to dig through the rubble to find bodies and bring them to funeral pyres.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/4953/kv_windows.html (952 words)

	slaughterhouse review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		However, it should be made clear that Vonnegut is really telling his own story; he was also captured by the Germans and was also a survivor of the fire bombing of Dresden, Germany.
		Vonnegut uses the character of Billy to portray his own experiences in fictional form.
		Vonnegut's first novel, Player Piano, visualizes a completely mechanized and automated society whose dehumanizing effects are unsuccessfully resisted by the scientists and workers in a New York factory town.
	www.chccs.k12.nc.us /chhs/librarywebpage/reviews/slaughterhouse_review.htm (668 words)

	Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut - 038533348X : PDXBooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cat's Cradle travels from the home turf of Vonnegut's imagination, Ilium, N.Y. to a Caribbean banana republic where an illicit religion called Bokononism is practiced, as a sense of doom (in the form of ice-nine) overtakes mankind.
		Vonnegut's novel satirizes everything about modern life, from the Cold War-era fear of the world ending with a doomsday weapon, to our scorn of avant-garde art, epitomized by the destruction and desecration of the narrator's Manhattan apartment by an up and coming artist.
		Vonnegut is undoubtedly a writer of immense originality, sharply humorous wit, and quite insightful at times.
	pdxbooks.com /compare/038533348X (990 words)

	Donald Morse- Repetition and Generalities
		Kurt Vonnegut began his writing career at the top of his trade with impressive early sales of short stories to the high-paying popular slick magazines.
		Also, Vonnegut's juvenile and college journalism, to which Reed devotes so much space, is "interesting"--to borrow one of his favorite critical terms--in showing the formation of Vonnegut's values, which remain consistent from that day to this.
		In Vonnegut's story it is ironically the machine itself which has to recall to its human inventors, as well as to the human readers of "EPICAC," that machine efficiency and speed are no substitute for human consciousness and feeling.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/review_essays/morse75.htm (3478 words)

	Engels \| Vonnegut, Kurt \| Cat's Cradle
		is the son of Kurt Vonnegut Sr., a wealthy architect, and Edith Sophia Vonnegut.
		Vonnegut's two older siblings, Alice and Bernard, attended private school, but the Depression's impact on the family's fortunes forced Vonnegut to attend Shortridge, a public high school.
		Vonnegut gained a reputation as a science fiction writer; he was not pleased with the title because science fiction occupied a low status in the world of literature.
	www.collegenet.nl /studiemateriaal/verslagen.php?verslag_id=9269&site= (1756 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Kurt Vonnegut
		Vonnegut's first novel Player Piano was published in 1952, and his novels, stories and essays began to appear regularly in the years that followed.
		Kurt Vonnegut's "explosive meditation" of a novel Breakfast of Champions (1973) is subtitled "Goodbye Blue Monday!" It is peppered with simple, childlike illustrations drawn by the author, and it tells a crazy-quilt story that eventually defies the constraints of the novel format itself.
		Vonnegut went on to write novels that perhaps had greater formal skill and technique, but Player Piano is a tour de force of imaginative insight into modern life and a shrewd satire of American progress.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/KurtVonneguteBooks.htm (807 words)

	Chapter One
		In discussing Vonnegut's authorial power, I should first stress that this presentation is definitely not a biographical study of Kurt Vonnegut, nor an attempt to associate his real life incidents with the stories in his fictional works.
		Metaphorically, Vonnegut implies the loss of the god-like power of the author as he presents Trout as a writer who cannot even control and decide what kind of illustrations to go with his novels.
		Although Vonnegut makes the traditionally invisible author figure present in the novel as the writer figure, Jonah, and exposes his writing process, the omniscient power of the author still remains in his over-manipulation of meaning through 127 subtitles.
	hermes.hrc.ntu.edu.tw /lctd/asp/theory/theories/4/references_2_3.htm (2287 words)

	Slaughterhouse Five, Constant Reader Discussion
		This particular instance is especially sad because Kurt Vonnegut notes that he, the author, was there and recalls actually hearing Wild Bill's words, words which he begins to repeat in the course of the novel.
		Timequake is Vonnegut writing a novel about what a crappy novel he had written and he reminisces about life in general while telling a slight tale about Kilgore Trout--in effect, reworking his material for the odd Breakfast of Champions.
		In his introduction to Mother Night, Vonnegut gives a brief bio of his WWII career:...After a while the war came, and I was in it, and I was captured, so I got to see a little of Germany from the inside while the war was still going on.
	www.constantreader.com /discussions/slaughterhousefive.htm (5413 words)

	The Book Forum - Discussion: Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Because of this gimmick, Vonnegut is not restricted to linear storytelling, he's free from the strictures of chronology.
		Vonnegut proves his worth as a satirist, and his important message comes across loud and clear.
		Blending science fiction with his memoirs Vonnegut has created a meta-fictional novel where time travel is a primary plot device; one that allows him the freedom to dismiss chronology in the telling of his tale.
	www.thebookforum.com /forums/printthread.php?t=4730 (1597 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Ilium, New York, is Divided Into Three Parts.
		In the northwest are the managers and engineers and civil servants and a few professional people; in the northeast are the machines; and in the south, across the Iroquios River, is the area locally known as Homestead, where almost all of the people live.
		In Vonnegut's scenario, a third world war had broken out, and the United States, with all of its workforce at war, needed "...
	www.math.grin.edu /~lyonavra/old-imsa/journal/literary.html (208 words)

	Ilium (Kurt Vonnegut): Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Ilium is a fictitious town in eastern New York (New York: A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) state, used as a setting for many of Kurt Vonnegut (Kurt Vonnegut: United States writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism and satire and science fiction (born in 1922)) 's novels.
		Player Piano (Player Piano: A mechanically operated piano that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys) (1952) places Ilium southeast of Albany (Albany: A town in southwest Georgia; processing center for peanuts and pecans) and Rensselaer (Rensselaer: rensselaer is a city in rensselaer county, new york, located on the hudson river,...
		North of Albany, on the same railway (railway: Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system) line, is Cohoes (Cohoes: Small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes), longtime residence of Vonnegut's character Kilgore Trout (Kilgore Trout: kilgore trout is a fictional character created by author kurt vonnegut....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/ilium_kurt_vonnegut (205 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle - Køb Bøger: Totaltiorden.dk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The statement could easily become non-fiction if the word "Felix" was replaced with "Kurt Vonnegut." Vonnegut is a master of spinning a crazy web of seemingly random events that poignantly, clearly spell out a very clear and crystallized point.
		Two science fictional concepts that Vonnegut creates in Cat's Cradle are the scientific invention of "Ice Nine" and the religion of "Bokononism." Both Bokononism and Ice Nine are the centerpieces of the novel, so they had to suspend the reader's disbelief, or the story would die.
		After the scenario plays out, we receive from Vonnegut the valuable intelligence that all of mankind's effort is meaningless and absurd, and that the best we can hope for is a good laugh at the joke that God has played on us.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/book_details.php/038533348X\|books\|17 (1489 words)

	San José Digital Library - Cat's Cradle - SJLibrary.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		If any single novel of Kurt Vonnegut's can represent his unique voice and freewheeling imagination, it is probably the wildly funny and provocative Cat's Cradle, published in 1963.
		The story travels from the home turf of Vonnegut's imagination—Ilium, N.Y.—to a Caribbean banana republic where an illicit religion called Bokononism is practiced, as a sense of doom (in the form of ice-nine) overtakes mankind.
		Hailed by Graham Greene as one of the best living American writers, Kurt Vonnegut is one of the definitive voices in American literature in the second half of the 20th century.
	ebooks.sjlibrary.org /00000022-0000-0000-0000-000000000008/10/88/en/ContentDetails.htm?ID={39A8AD1F-030E-4D98-A2FF-C2FCE223AD9B} (775 words)

	Cat's Cradle
		Cat's Cradle travels from the home turf of Vonnegut's imagination, Ilium, N.Y. to a Caribbean banana republic where an illicit religion called Bokononism is practiced, as a sense of doom (in the form of icenine) overtakes mankind.
		Cat's Cradle, in which Vonnegut weaves a satirical commentary on modern man and his madness, is one of the author's most highly praised novels.
		Filled with humor and unforgettable characters, this is the apocalyptic story of the end of the Earth, coupled with a vision of the future that is both darkly fantastic and funny.
	www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn0808520695 (354 words)

	Sample A paper
		Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer working in a specific genre, has been classified as a science fiction writer, a fl humor writer, and now a postmodern writer.
		Vonnegut currently is grouped into postmodernism, because of the very same reason he was placed in the science fiction category: pastiche.
		Vonnegut is labeled as a satirist, a fl humorist, and a prophet of doom.
	www.viterbo.edu /personalpages/faculty/RSamuels/sampleapaper.html (1464 words)

	Ilium (Kurt Vonnegut) Information
		Ilium is a fictitious town in eastern New York state, used as a setting for many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels.
		The name most likely refers to Troy, New York, which is not far from Schenectady, where Vonnegut worked for a number of years.
		North of Albany, on the same railway line, is Cohoes, longtime residence of Vonnegut's character Kilgore Trout.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Ilium_(Kurt_Vonnegut) (115 words)

	Essays.cc - Kurt Vonnegut
		Vonnegut carries this concept all through the story, that the universe is meaningless and each person must exist for oneself.
		Vonnegut's brother, who was several years older than him, had been having a successful career as a chemist when his parents decided that Kurt would become a chemist, too.
		Vonnegut uses his scientific knowledge to describe the entire concept and all the properties of this fictitious substance, which makes it seems all the more real.
	www.essays.cc /free_essays/b1/vdj142.shtml (1891 words)

	Books of The Times
		Vonnegut pronounces his book a failure "because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre." He's wrong and he knows it.
		Vonnegut to tell his story fluidly, jumping forward and backward in time, free from the strictures of chronology.
		And this problem of Billy's is related to the second thing, which is that Billy says that on his daughter's wedding night he was kidnapped by a flying saucer from the planet Tralfamadore, flown there through a time warp, and exhibited with a movie star named Montana Wildhack.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/97/09/28/lifetimes/vonnegut-slaughterhouse.html (817 words)

	The Inimitable Vonnegut, at Both Ends of His Career
		Last year, after a seven-year hiatus, Vonnegut published ``Timequake,'' a novel that was meant to be his last book, the coda to a remarkable career.
		The emotionality of this early Vonnegut, the succinct presentation of his characters and themes, is both a surprise and a delight.
		Vonnegut writes with such simple vision, his prose so graceful (though it also suffers in places from a characteristic bluntness), that it's amazing to think these stories were an apprenticeship for him.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/10/24/RV46953.DTL (793 words)

	"Ilium" in Kurt Vonnegut's "The Player Piano" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In Kurt Vonnegut's "The Player Piano", the city where the story takes place is called "Ilium", just as Troy was also called "Ilium" in "The Illiad".
		Some possible connections I thought of that could connect the Ilium of "The Illiad" with the Ilium of the "Player Piano" are: 1.
		Similarly at the end of Vonnegut's book, it is ovbious that the destruction of the "Ilium works" has not destroyed the industrialized lifestyle in other places, or even for good in Ilium.
	english.edgewood.edu /eng276hunter/_disc11/000000e0.htm (261 words)

	Study Guide for Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
		Vonnegut is not a Christian or even a theist; he may use traditional religious images (etc.) in untraditional ways.
		Vonnegut has said that his politics are mostly what he learned in high school civics class, and, if his class was like mine, that assessment seems quite accurate.
		The reference to Darwin is to the idea (vulgarly interpreted) of the survival of the fittest: those organisms survive and reproduce that are best adapted to their immediate environments; the deaths of the less fit produce more biological space, so to speak, for the multiplication of the currently superior forms.
	www.users.muohio.edu /erlichrd/350website/sh5n.html (6593 words)

	Jim on the Web - Review of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five
		Billy pilgrim is an optometrist from Ilium, New York.
		He was taken prisoner by the Germans, and after being moved here and there he ended up in Dresden, where he witnessed the dreadful bombing of that city, which caused a firestorm killing tens of thousands of citizens.
		Billy Pilgrim, like Kurt Vonnegut himself, survived this bombing by being at the right place at the right time by pure luck.
	jim-on-the-web.bravepages.com /en/timeoff/books/vonnegut-slaughterhousefive.html (455 words)

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