EN INGLES. 219pp, SOBRE EL AUTOR:: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Indianápolis, 11 de noviembre de 1922 - Nueva York, 11 de abril de 2007) fue un escritor estadounidense, cuyas obras, generalmente adscritas al género de la ciencia ficción, participan también de la sátira y la comedia negra. Es autor de catorce novelas, entre las que destacan Las sirenas de Titán (1959), Matadero cinco (1969) y El desayuno de los campeones (1973).Al término del conflicto, Vonnegut estudió Antropología en la Universidad de Chicago, y trabajó también como reportero policial en el City News Bureau of Chicago. En 1946, la Facultad de Antropología reprobó su tesis, titulada On the Fluctuations between Good and Evil in Simple Tales.7 Más adelante aceptaron su novela, Cuna de gato, y le concedieron el título. Abandonó Chicago para trabajar en Schenectady, en el estado de Nueva York, en el departamento de relaciones públicas de la empresa General Electric. El autor atribuyó su estilo, libre de adornos, a este trabajo. En 1950 publicó su primer relato, titulado Report on the Barnhouse Effect en la revista Collier's Weekly. A punto de abandonar la escritura, recibió la oferta de un empleo en el taller de escritores de la Universidad de Iowa. Su primera novela, La pianola, de 1952, es una distopía que describe un mundo en el que los humanos han sido sustituidos por máquinas. Más adelante publicó Las sirenas de Titán (1959) y Cuna de gato (1963), que se convirtió en un best-seller. Durante la década de los 60 publicó cuatro novelas, en las cuales se registra un fuerte cambio formal y conceptual de su obra, hasta publicar Matadero cinco o La cruzada de los inocentes en 1969, una novela semi-autobiográfica que relata sus experiencias como soldado en el bombardeo de Dresde, experimentalmente estructurada alrededor de viajes en el tiempo. Así se constituyó en uno de los críticos más feroces de la sociedad contemporánea, aludiendo a la guerra, la destrucción del medio ambiente y la deshumanización. Expresó estos
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"Utterly original...capable of moving from irony to lament within a sentence" (Guardian)
"Reading Timequake... I feel privileged to have spent several hours in the company of a most genial, affable and upbeat soul indeed...a wise, winning and utterly charming concoction of fiction, commentary and autobiography" (Literary Review)
"Timequake is sweet, wild and cock-eyed... Vonnegut has always had a true comic ear... A beautifully fastidious writer, utterly original" (Guardian)
"Fascinating digressions, epigrams and memories, vitalised by Vonnegut's irrepressible intelligence and comic imagination, creating a movingly intimate work" (Harper's Bazaar)
"Highly entertaining... The portraits of Vonnegut's first wife, brother and sister are beautiful, sharp, critical, loving" (New York Times Book Review)
‘Timequake is sweet, wild and cock-eyed... Vonnegut has always had a true comic ear... A beautifully fastidious writer, utterly original’ - Guardian
According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th 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 wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will – not to mention the torture of reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades.
With his trademark wicked wit, Vonnegut addresses memory, suicide, the Great Depression, the loss of American eloquence, and the obsolescent thrill of reading books.
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