V onnegut, K urt

Abstract

Kurt Vonnegut was a prolific, uniquely inventive, and bestselling fiction writer, essayist, humorist, and public presence. His writing combines ironic dark humor, postmodern techniques, and antiestablishment politics to offer an intensely humanist critique of the twentieth century, especially the brutality and destruction of war and the abuses or excesses associated with technological advancement, capitalist individualism, and political and corporate power. His oeuvre includes short stories, drama, drawings, and 14 novels, and his work was frequently transferred into television and film.