"Being Alive is a Crock of Shit" - Kurt Vonnegut's Kind Pessimism
Kurt Vonnegut, long considered one of the arch-misanthropes of the American literary canon, can more accurately be said to have only fallen into genuine cynicism at the very end of his life. Before this final despair, however, Vonnegut was a trenchant critic of a variety of aspects of American cultu...
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University of Edinburgh
2015-06-01
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| Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/1276 |