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“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representingabsolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

And I realise some of you may be having trouble deciding whether I am kidding or not. So from now on I will tell you when I'm kidding.

For instance, join the National Guard or the Marines and teach democracy. I'm kidding.

We are about to be attacked by al-Qaida. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.

If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practising an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”


Kurt Vonnegut-‘A Man Without A Country’
Seven Stories Press




One of the outstanding figures of modern US literature, Kurt Vonnegut, has died aged 84 in New York.



O Kurt Vonnegut υπήρξε από τους σημαντικότερους συγγραφείς της Αμερικανικής λογοτεχνίας μετά το ‘50: έγινε διάσημος με το ‘Σφαγείο νο.5’ (Slaughterhouse Five, or the Children's Crusade, 1969) το οποίο αναφέρεται στο βομβαρδισμό της Δρέσδης, χωρίς να υπολείπεται των sci-fi στοιχείων που χρησιμοποιούσε συχνά στα βιβλία του.
Στα ελληνικά κυκλοφορούν τα πιο γνωστά του έργα, ‘Σφαγείο νο.5’, ‘Οι Σειρήνες του Τιτάνα’, ‘Γκαλαπάγκος’, ‘Slapstick ή Οχι πια Μοναξιά’, ‘Μητέρα Νύχτα’, ‘Η Φωλιά της Γάτας’.


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