Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel: A Postmodern by Robert T. Tally

By Robert T. Tally

The novels of Kurt Vonnegut depict a profoundly absurd and enormously postmodern international. yet during this serious learn, Robert Tally argues that Vonnegut himself is absolutely a modernist, who's much less drawn to indulging within the loose play of signifiers than in trying to build a version that can surround the yankee adventure on the finish of the 20th century. As a modernist wrestling with a postmodern situation, Vonnegut uses assorted and infrequently eccentric narrative thoughts (such as metafiction, college, and temporal slippages) to venture a finished imaginative and prescient of existence within the usa. Vonnegut’s novels therefore turn into experiments in making experience of the novel differences of self and society in the course of that curious, risky interval referred to as, might be paradoxically, the ‘American Century.’ An premature determine, Vonnegut develops a postmodern iconography of yankee civilization whereas concurrently acknowledging the impossibility of a really finished representation.

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