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Bluebeard

Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man’s careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves.

318 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1987

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Kurt Vonnegut, Junior was an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. He was recognized as New York State Author for 2001-2003.

He was born in Indianapolis, later the setting for many of his novels. He attended Cornell University from 1941 to 1943, where he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. Vonnegut trained as a chemist and worked as a journalist before joining the U.S. Army and serving in World War II.

After the war, he attended University of Chicago as a graduate student in anthropology and also worked as a police reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago. He left Chicago to work in Schenectady, New York in public relations for General Electric. He attributed his unadorned writing style to his reporting work.

His experiences as an advance scout in the Battle of the Bulge, and in particular his witnessing of the bombing of Dresden, Germany whilst a prisoner of war, would inform much of his work. This event would also form the core of his most famous work, Slaughterhouse-Five, the book which would make him a millionaire. This acerbic 200-page book is what most people mean when they describe a work as "Vonnegutian" in scope.

Vonnegut was a self-proclaimed humanist and socialist (influenced by the style of Indiana's own Eugene V. Debs) and a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

The novelist is known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973)

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Profile Image for Basak Altincekic.
51 reviews138 followers
March 18, 2020
Küçük bir uyarı, benim kitabım Can Yayınlarından çıkan 2. baskı ve aralıklarla yaklaşık 20 sayfası eksik basılmış. Yeni satın alacaksanız dikkat edin. Bunun dışında Vonnegut mizahını sevdiğimi daha önce söylemiş olmalıyım. Bana iyi geliyor.
Profile Image for Grod.
23 reviews
January 31, 2016
Kafam çok karışık. Çok gerçek,çok güzel,çok tuhaf ve sıkıcı bir kitap bu.
Profile Image for Pelin Doğan.
5 reviews
January 15, 2018
Gerçek bir “görsel” şölen. Seyrine doyum olmayan bir metin hayal edin: Sözcükler renk renk, kıpırdayan renklenen cümleler ve unutulmayacak güzellikte paragraflar; insan olmanın renkleri, insanlık tarihinin kanvası.
Profile Image for Sencer Turunç.
142 reviews27 followers
May 20, 2017
2015 basımının 251. sayfası:

"Erkeklerin bu gezegendeki kadınlara, çocuklara ve tüm diğer savunmasız yaratıklara yapmış olduğu onca şeyden sonra, sadece her resmin değil, bir insan tarafından yaratılan her müzik parçasının, her heykelin, her piyesin, her şiirin ve her kitabın yalnızca şunu söylüyor olmasının vakti geldi artık: 'Biz bu güzel yeri hak etmeyecek kadar korkunç varlıklarız. Pes ediyoruz. Çekiliyoruz. Son!'"
203 reviews31 followers
December 28, 2017
Şişmanlamanın tek yolunun üç gün ölü olarak beklemek olduğu bir yirminci yüzyıl ilk yarısı kara mizahı...
Profile Image for Alphan Lodi.
380 reviews3 followers
January 16, 2023
Akıllıca kaleme alınmış, şaşırtıcı derecede eğlenceli, bir o kadar hüzünlü hatta acı dolu bir kitap. Hepsi bir arada ve katman katman sayfalara yerleştirilmiş. Belki de işlenmiş demeliyim. İkinci Dünya Savaşı gazisi Rabo Karabekian’ın tek arzusu patates ambarında saklı tuttuğu büyük sırrı ile rahat bırakılmaktır. Kendi yaşamını anlatan Rabo’yu siz de dinlemelisiniz.
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