Le breakfast du champion

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Kurt Vonnegut: Le breakfast du champion (French language, 1974, Seuil)

268 Seiten

French language

Am 23. April 1974 von Seuil veröffentlicht.

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Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Kurt Vonnegut's Iconic Satire: Absurdity, Capitalism, and Human Life in 'Breakfast of Champions'

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Kurt Vonnegut is known for his absurd, simplistic, unconventional, and often satirical writing style. Within the pages of Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut confronts the issues of race, poverty, and the distribution of wealth in America. He criticizes the capitalist system and consumerism, exposing the hypocrisy of a society that marginalizes and mistreats its own members. Another significant theme in the book is the environmental destruction caused by overpopulation and industrial pollution. Vonnegut paints a grim picture of a planet damaged by human activities, forcing readers to confront the consequences of our actions.

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  • Science fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction