Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook154 pages1 hour
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations—including his last published interview.
During his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut—which collects interviews from throughout his career—we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he viewed his work at the end.
From Kurt Vonnegut's Last Interview
Is there another book in you, by chance?
No. Look, I’m 84 years old. Writers of fiction have usually done their best work by the time they’re 45. Chess masters are through when they’re 35, and so are baseball players. There are plenty of other people writing. Let them do it.
So what’s the old man’s game, then?
My country is in ruins. So I’m a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I’m mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That’s why I served in World War II, and that’s why I wrote books.
When someone reads one of your books, what would you like them to take from the experience?
Well, I’d like the guy—or the girl, of course—to put the book down and think, “This is the greatest man who ever lived.”
During his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut—which collects interviews from throughout his career—we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he viewed his work at the end.
From Kurt Vonnegut's Last Interview
Is there another book in you, by chance?
No. Look, I’m 84 years old. Writers of fiction have usually done their best work by the time they’re 45. Chess masters are through when they’re 35, and so are baseball players. There are plenty of other people writing. Let them do it.
So what’s the old man’s game, then?
My country is in ruins. So I’m a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I’m mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That’s why I served in World War II, and that’s why I wrote books.
When someone reads one of your books, what would you like them to take from the experience?
Well, I’d like the guy—or the girl, of course—to put the book down and think, “This is the greatest man who ever lived.”
Unavailable
Author
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Siren's of Titan in 1959 and established him as ""a true artist"" with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene has declared, ""one of the best living American writers.""
Read more from Kurt Vonnegut
Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Transformations: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Moon Star Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind's Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Five Fantastic Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slaughterhouse-Five Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Going All the Way: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Forgotten Sci-Fi Classics: A Compilation from Galaxy Science Fiction Issues Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings2 B R 0 2 B | The Pink Classics Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/52BR02B Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/52 B R 0 2 B (Sheba Blake Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/52br02b Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Kurt Vonnegut
Related ebooks
Bullet Points 1: Bullet Points Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Uptight: The Velvet Underground Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Wounded Don’t Cry Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Phoenix Project Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Accidental Agent: Behind Enemy Lines with the French Resistance Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Best Chicken Thief in All of Europe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFarm Hall (NHB Modern Plays) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHigh Jinx Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Should Have Shot the Donkeys Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fight for the Argonne: Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCanongate to Cannon Shell Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStudy Guide to Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKurt Vonnegut's America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Messengers of the Lost Battalion: The Heroic 551st and the Turning of the Tide at th Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cthulhu's Cousins and Other Weirdnesses Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Fourth Macabre MEGAPACK® Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings1984 (NHB Modern Plays) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Whisperer and Other Voices: Short Stories and a Novella Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Arise to Conquer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHis Story - A Novel Memoir - The Life and Times of Dick O'Toole Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Red House Mystery Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Drawing D-Day: An Artist's Journey Through War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBanzai! by Parabellum Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Am Jack's Ax: Breaking Down the Barriers of Stanley Kubrick's Film The Shining Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Power of Podcasting: Telling stories through sound Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNegative of a Nude Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYondering: The First Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5When the Tripods Came Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ghosts of Time Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Anger Beneath Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Literary Criticism For You
A Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lincoln Lawyer: A Mysterious Profile Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMan's Search for Meaning: by Viktor E. Frankl | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Killers of the Flower Moon: by David Grann | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The 48 Laws of Power: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/512 Rules For Life: by Jordan Peterson | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As I Lay Dying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain | Conversation Starters Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Letters to a Young Poet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Virtues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Moby Dick (Complete Unabridged Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Court of Thorns and Roses: A Novel by Sarah J. Maas | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Alone: by Kristin Hannah | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Secret History: by Donna Tartt | Conversation Starters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Art of Seduction: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: by Gail Honeyman | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Circe: by Madeline Miller | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Between the World and Me: by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Reviews for Kurt Vonnegut
Rating: 3.7307692 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
13 ratings0 reviews