  | I REVIEW BOOKS ON THE LAST SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH KV really hitting his stride now, even though I felt this one was also a tad hard to get into at the onset. The blank space/babe in the woods template of Howard W. Campbell Jr. is the perfect canvas for his depictions of the horror that is the post-World War universe. This has really nothing to do with the book, but I’ve been consumed a lot lately with the sad fact that embodying a true anti-war mindset has been rendered so rare these days. Even the most “liberal” among us seem to have been conditioned into thinking that, well shucks, there’s a time and a place, I guess. And that sucks major ass, which is why I appreciate Vonnegut more than ever. Below is an archival podcast recording... |
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⫷ MOVIE #1,319 - (YOU ARE HERE) - MOVIE #1,321 ⫸
⫷ MOVIE #1,319 - (YOU ARE HERE) - MOVIE #1,321 ⫸
Mother Night is a novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut. The novel takes the form of the fictional memoirs of Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American, who moved to Germany in 1923 at age 11, and later became a well-known playwright and Nazi propagandist. The story of the novel is narrated (through the use of metafiction) by Campbell himself, writing his memoirs while awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison. Campbell also appears briefly in Vonnegut's later novel Slaughterhouse-Five. It was released on February 1, 1962.
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