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31 de may. de 2024 · I think Vonnegut, who died in 2007 aged 84, wasn’t only trying to show us the nonlinearity of time and the horrors of war when he wrote Slaughterhouse Five. By offering us a portrait of personal and universal grief, and the way that loss permeates our lives, he was pointing toward something else.
Hace 4 días · Beyond his failed marriage, Vonnegut was deeply affected when his son Mark suffered a mental breakdown in 1972, which exacerbated Vonnegut's chronic depression and led him to take Ritalin. When he stopped taking the drug in the mid-1970s, he began to see a psychologist weekly.
8 de jun. de 2024 · Quan Vonnegut es va posar a escriure Salt en el temps ja havia decidit que seria la seva última novel·la, per això va voler que aquest colofó fos un regal per als lectors i, sobretot, per als seus personatges, a qui, tot i ridiculitzar sovint, s’estimava amb bogeria.
30 de may. de 2024 · Un psiquiatra embaucador que se convierte en «asesor de homicidios» e inventa una trama original y cruel para sacarle rédito a las pulsiones de sus pacientes paranoicos; una familia que conoce las consecuencias de confiar sus secretos más íntimos a una mágica invención; un hombre atrapado en un mundo kafkiano después de enfrentarse al jefe de lo...
2 de jun. de 2024 · Kurt Vonnegut: A través del tiempo. La biografía de un amado autor estadounidense. Pero también un retrato de la odisea de un cineasta mientras examina el impacto que ha tenido el legado del autor en su propia vida, que va mucho más allá de lo impreso en las páginas de sus libros.
16 de jun. de 2024 · Synopsis. Winner of the American Library Association Notable Book Award, Mark Vonnegut's honest, thoughtful and moving account of the illness of schizophrenia features a foreword by his father, literary grandmaster Kurt Vonnegut., "Most diseases can be separated from one's self . . . schizophrenia is something we are."
31 de may. de 2024 · Vonnegut said he didn’t really know his grandfather, who passed away in 2007 when he was 4 years old, but he’s read some of his work and heard stories from his father, Mark, who is Vonnegut’s son and has published three memoirs of his own.
