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Kurt vonnegut timequake is not the novel its author originally intended. The idea of determinism is exploredas it is in many of his previous worksto assert that people really have no free will. Analysis of kurt vonneguts novels literary theory and criticism. Timequake is a semiautobiographical work by kurt vonnegut, jr. Marketed as a novel, the book was described as a stew by vonnegut, in which he summarizes a novel he had been struggling with for a number of years. The main characters of this humor, classics story are. According to kurt vonneguts alter egothe old science fiction writer kilgore trouta global timequake will occur on february, 2001, at 2. For its own cosmic reasons, it decides to back up a decade to 1991, giving the world a. Timequake, as published, is a metafictional account of vonnegut s life and attempts to write the original version of the novel. Vonneguts memories of his family and friends is interspersed with the story of the old science fiction author, kilgore trout, who has lived through the ten year rerun and is now coming to terms with the return, as. The novels of kurt vonnegut depict a profoundly absurd and distinctly postmodern world. After the slaughterhouse by martin amis inveterately regressive, ever the playful infantilist, kurt vonnegut recently shuffled his career into a report card, signed it, and tacked it to his study wall.
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