Résultats pour "Kurt" dans Satire

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).

Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat's Cradle is one of this century's most important works...and Vonnegut at his very best.

Eugene Debs Hartke describes an odyssey from college professor to prison inmate to prison warden back again to prisoner in another of Vonnegut's bitter satirical explorations of how and where (and why) the American dream begins to die. Employing his characteristic narrative device - a retrospective diary in which the protagonist retraces his life at its end, a desperate and disconnected series of events here in Hocus Pocus show Vonnegut with his mask off and his rhetorical devices unshielded.

The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course, there's a catch to the invitation...

To lande, to folk! Det er oprørsleder Hektor Hellføkks slagord i kampen for at dele Norge i to. Rabiate Nordlændinge vil ikke længere betale skat til opera og kønsforskning. De har ødelagt veje og flyvepladser. Jernbane- telefon- og internet er sprængt i stumper og stykker. I denne ugæstfrie atmosfære er truckføren Kurt på vej nordpå med en vigtig besked. Det handler om landets videre skæbne. Om savn og svigt - og en stadig kamp for friske truckbatterier.

Kurt er truckfører på havnen. En dag redder han en sømands liv og får som tak en diamant, der er 50 millioner værd. Men Kurt, som egentlig er et rart menneske, kan ikke tåle den pludselige rigdom

Perhaps the most autobiographical (and deliberately least disciplined) of Vonnegut's novels, Slapstick (1976) is in the form of a broken family odyssey and is surely a demonstration of its eponymous title. The story centers on brother and sister twins, children of Wilbur Swain, who are in sympathetic and (possibly) telepathic communication and who represent Vonnegut's relationship with his own sister who died young of cancer almost two decades before the book's publication.

"Wir alle sind, was wir gelesen." (Golo Mann). Ich halte dieses Diktum Golo Manns für wahr. Insbesondere die Lektüre in empfindsamen Phasen unseres Lebens, zu denen die Jugend sicher zweifellos gehört, prägt uns alle. Sie prägt uns in unserer Art zu denken, die Welt wahrzunehmen und vielleicht sogar, wie wir fühlen. Tucholskys Texten begegnete ich erstmals bewusst mit ca. 14 Jahren, nachdem mir sein Name im Wesentlichen als der Autor des auffälligen Liederbuches, das bei meinen Eltern im Regal lag, bekannt war.

Sammlung der 16 wichtigsten Satiren von Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935), darunter die bekannte Schrift "Was darf Satire?" Tucholsky zählt zu den bedeutendsten Publizisten der Weimarer Republik. Er schrieb unter anderem unter den Pseudonymen Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger und Ignaz Wrobel.