1961
Sarah Phillips Kurt Vonnegut was the most popular American writer in the Soviet Union in the 1970s,1 and it will not surprise Vonnegut fans to learn that he predicted his own success. In Mother Night (1961), the protagonist Howard W. Campbell, Jr. provides a fictional account of one Stepan Bodovskov’s (plagiaristic) literary success in Russia, in particular the success …
Rebekah Sheldon Kurt Vonnegut opens Mother Night, his third novel, by explaining that he is not and never has been a Nazi. The closest he came was a youthful encounter with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion when he was a kid in the ’30s in Indianapolis. The Protocols is one of the most infamous examples of what …
Rick Van Kooten Kurt Vonnegut’s first two books, Player Piano and Sirens of Titan, can arguably be categorized as science fiction, but Mother Night is a distinct departure from that genre. I have been an enthusiastic fan of Vonnegut since my younger days, but I admit that of the six texts being considered in the academia of Salo University, …
Like Salo University, The Vonnegut Review is a literary project and online hub for everything Kurt Vonnegut. Read HERE about how Vonnegut’s novel, Mother Night, ties into the Adolf Eichmann Nazi Trial of 1961.
