KURT VONNEGUT

Un Michael Moore inteligente y mordaz. Un hombre sin patria es la culminación de la obra de Kurt Vonnegut, considerado por muchos el mejor escritor norteamericano actual. En unos textos breves, brillantes y llenos de humor negro, critica todo lo que no le gusta del mundo que le rodea, desde Bush a la manera que estamos acabando con nuestro plan...

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«Si no soy un escritor, entonces no soy nada». Así terminaba Kurt Vonnegut una carta que el autor de Matadero cinco envió en 1951 al poeta Walter J. Miller y que encabeza el volumen de 14 relatos, escritos en los años 50, que integran Mire al pajarito . Se trata de un libro inédito en España hasta el próximo 6 de septiembre, cuando llegar...

Kurt Vonnegut was a POW held in Dresden in 1945 when the city was attacked by American bombers and virtually obliterated, leaving more than 130,000 people dead. He uses that event as the climax of this satirical and horrifying anti-war novel, in which a young man named Billy Pilgrim experiences much of what Vonnegut himself saw during the war. ...

One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes. 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...

According to Vonnegut`s alter ego,science-fiction writer Kilgore Trouta global timequake will occur in New York City on 13 february 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to back up a decade to 1991,making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja vu and...

Escorxador-5 (1969) descriu les vicissituds d'un personatge desorientat que en plena Alemanya nazi es despenja del seu batalló i erra entre línies enemigues. L'experiència bèl·lica convertida en un seguit de vinyetes divertides i sarcàstiques sense banalitzar el dolor de la guerra. Edicions Proa recupera dins la seva collecció A tot vent un cl...

" Look at the Birdie " evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to ... Show synopsis "Look at the Birdie" evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing tech...

From the author of Timequake, this "irresistible" novel (Cleveland Plain Dealer) tells the story of Eugene Debs Hartke-Vietnam veteran, jazz pianist, college professor, and prognosticator of the apocalypse. It's " Vonnegut 's best novel in years-funny and prophetic...something special." (The Nation)