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Nell'immaginaria cittadina americana di Midland City si deve svolgere un festival della letteratura e delle arti ed è qui che si incontrano Kilgore Trout, sconosciuto, anziano e spiantato scrittore di fantascienza e Dwayne Hoover, ricco rivenditore di auto Pontiac usate, ossessionato dai romanzi dell'altro. Dwayne impazzisce per la lettura di un libro che lo porta a credere di essere l'unica creatura dotata di libero arbitrio in un mondo di robot. La storia si svolge nell'attesa dell'incontro tra i due, e li segue nelle vicende che li porteranno a ritrovarsi nel bar dell'Holiday Inn di Midland City. Intorno a loro si muovono una nutrita schiera di bizzarri uomini e donne della provincia americana la cui triste esistenza viene raccontata con crudo realismo, dando vita a una feroce satira che prende di mira l'intero "sistema" a stelle e strisce.
- ISBN: 8830103756
- Casa Editrice: Bompiani
- Pagine: 244
- Data di uscita: 15-07-2020
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I am about to finish Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions . I checked out the book from the Multnomah County Library four weeks ago. I've never read anything by Kurt Vonnegut before. The book looks like this: [image error] I'm enjoying the book because it feels easy to read. I'm not enjoying the book Leggi tutto
A novel is a dead tree with words on it. Breakfast of Champions is a great dead tree with words on it.
I have a little inner book snob that desperately wants to like Vonnegut. In the very unlikely event that I should find myself at a convention of bookish intellectuals, I feel like I'd fit right in if I sipped my champagne and said "Oh yes, indeed, I simply adore what Vonnegut has to say about the ab Leggi tutto
What is life we live from day to day? What do we eat at breakfast? How do we cope with our problems and what are we doing for fun? What dreams do we dream and what ideas do we have in our heads? The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless Leggi tutto
“in nonsense is strength” Nothing is sacred in : Breakfast of Champions . The narrator/Philboyd Studge/Vonnegut makes his appearance as the Creator of the Universe (or at least the creators of the characters in his novel) as he delivers what amounts to a searing meta-critique of American culture. "The Leggi tutto
"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose." —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Conan Doyle's famous quote came to mind as I was reading this boisterous book: it was as if Vonnegut had decided to empty his cluttered attic Leggi tutto
God, what a terrible book of nonsense. The two main characters are just overly weird and bizarre for the sake of being bizarre. And I mean really really bizarre. (I suspect many people say they like Vonnegut because he is so damn weird, but theres gotta be a purpose to it. You can't just have complet Leggi tutto
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