Table of Contents

Preface Chronology Introduction Three Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut: With Peter Reed, New York, 1982; With Zoltán Abádi-Nagy, New York, 1989; With Peter Reed and Marc Leeds, Lexington, 1993 The Responsive Shaman: Kurt Vonnegut and His World by Peter Reed Kurt Vonnegut: Public Spokesman by Jerome Klinkowitz Kurt Vonnegut as a German American by Robert Merrill Bokononism as a Structure of Ironies by Zoltá Abádi-Nadj Beyond the Slaughterhouse: Tralfamadorian Reading Theory in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut by Marc Leeds Jailbird: A Postmodern Fairy Tale by Kay Nelson The Family Theme in Kurt Vonnegut's Slapstick by Peter Reed Dancing with the Muse in Vonnegut's Later Novels by Lorre Rackstraw Vonnegut's Invented Religions by Peter Freese Bluebeard and Abstract Expressionsim by Cliff McCarthy Hartke's Hearing: Vonnegut's Heroes on Trial by Lawrence Broer A Selected Bibliography, 1985-1992 by Peter Reed and Paul Baepler Appendix: The Graphics of Kurt Vonnegut Index

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About the Author

PETER J. REED, Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, wrote the first book-length treatment of Vonnegut in 1972, Writers for the 70s:Kurt Vonnegut. His biographical sketches of Vonnegut appear in such standard works as the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, the Dictionary of American Literary Biography, Magill's Survey of American Literature, and Postmodern Fiction:A Bio-Bibliographical Guide. MARC LEEDS has directed computer-based writing programs at East Tennessee State University and Shawnee State University. He is now a freelance writer and author of The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: An Authorized Compendium (Greenwood, 1995).