Kurt Vonnegut (1922 ~ )

커트 보네것

작가 소개

미국 소설가. 인디애나폴리스 출생. 코넬대학에서 화학과 생물학을 공부했다. 재학중에 군대에 들어가 유럽전선으로 갔다. 독일군 포로가 되어 드레스덴에 억류중이던 1945년 2월 13일 연합군의 대공습을 당했지만, 도살장 지하의 생육저장소에 감금되어 있었기 때문에 기적적으로 살아났다. 이 고통스런 공포의 체험이 그의 문학의 중요한 주제를 형성했다. 제2차세계대전 후 제너럴 일렉트릭사의 홍보과에 있었고, 최첨단기술의 도시 스케넥터디에서 보낸 4년간의 경험이 그의 SF식, 극화식의 작풍을 결정했다. 52년 컴퓨터에 지배되는 가까운 미래의 공감을 그린 반유토피아소설 《플레이어 피아노》를 출판했다. 이 후에 SF적 기상이 넘치는 《타이탄의 요녀(1961)》, 나치스로 변장한 미국인 스파이가 대전후 전범으로 몰려 돌아갈 곳을 상실한 이야기 《어머니 같은 밤(1962)》, 가공할 만한 최후의 무기 <아이스나인>이 초래하는 인류 멸망의 이야기인 《고양이의 요람(1963)》, 현대에 있어 절대의 선인(善人)을 그린 《로즈워터씨, 당신에게 신의 은총을(1965)》 등 연달아 걸작을 발표했다. 67년 드레스덴을 다시 방문, 69년 《도살장 5호》를 출판했다. 이것은 우주 끝의 별에 시점을 두고 말로 표현할 수 없는 비극을 농담처럼 표현한 블랙유머문학이다. 이 외에 《슬랩스틱(1976)》 《수인(囚人, 1979)》 《샌디농장(1981)》, 단편집 《원숭이의 집에 잘 오셨습니다(1968)》 등이 있다.

작품 리스트

NOVELS

Player Piano. 1952; published as Utopia 14 (1954). Published again as Player Piano, 1966.
The Sirens of Titan. 1959.
Mother Night. 1961. Hardcover edition, 1966.
Cat's Cradle. 1963.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; or, Pearls before Swine. 1965.
Slaughterhouse Five; or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., a Fourth-Generation German-American Now Living in Easy Circumstances on Cape Cod (and Smoking Too Much) Who, as an American Infantry Scout Hors de Combat, as a Prisoner of War, Witnessed the Fire-Bombing of Dreseden, Germany, the Florence of the Elbe, a Long Time Ago, and Survived to Tell the Tale: This Is a Novel Somewhat in the Telegraphic Schizophrenic Manner of Tales of the Planet Tralfamadore, Where the Flying Saucers Come From. 1969. Twenty-fifth anniversary edition, 1994.
Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday. 1973.
Slapstick; or, Lonesome No More. 1976.
Jailbird. 1979.
Deadeye Dick. 1982.
Gal?agos: A Novel. 1985.
Bluebeard. 1987.
Hocus Pocus. 1990.
Timequake. 1997.

COLLECTED SHORT FICTION

Canary in a Cathouse. 1961. All stories from Canary are reprinted in Welcome to the Monkey House with the exception of "Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp."
Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works. 1968.
See Frequently Asked Questions for a lisiting of the uncollected fiction.

PLAYS, WORKS for TELEVISION, ADAPTATIONS by KV

Penelope. 1960. Later revised as Happy Birthday, Wanda June, 1970.
Between Time and Timbuktu; or, Prometheus Five: A Space Fantasy. National Educational Television Network. 1972.
Make Up Your Mind. c. 1988.
Miss Temptation. Edited by David Coperman. 1993.
L'Histoire du Soldat. 1993, 1997. Adaptation.

COLLECTED ESSAYS and SUCH

Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons: (Opinions). 1974.
Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage. 1981.
Nothing Is Lost Save Honor: Two Essays. 1984. Contains "The Worse Addiction of Them All" and "Fates Worse than Death: Lecture at St. John the Divine, New York City, May 23, 1982."
Fates Worse than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s. 1991.

SELECTED UNCOLLECTED ESSAYS, SOUNDINGS, ETC.

Sun, Moon, Star. 1980. A work for children, illustrated by Ivan Chermayeff.
"Books into Ashes." The New York Times section 4.19, February 7, 1982.
"Avoiding the Big Bang." The New York Times section 4.23, June 13, 1982.
Bob and Ray: A Retrospective, June 15-July 10, 1982. 1982. Contributor.
Discrimination, Affirmative Action, and Equal Opportunity: An Economic and Social Perspective. 1982. Contributor.
"A Dream of the Future (Not Excluding Lobsters)." Esquire 104: 74, 1985.
"He Leadeth Us from Porn: God Bless You, Edwin Meese." Nation 242.3: 65. 1986.
"Requiem: The Hocus Pocus Laundromat." North American Review 271: 29-35, 1986.
"Can Great Books Make Good Movies? 7 Writers Just Say No!" American Film 12:36-40, 1987. Contributor.
"My Fellow Americans: What I'd Say if They Asked Me." Nation 247: 53, 1988.
"The Courage of Ivan Martin Jirous." The Washington Post A25, March 31, 1989.
"Slaughter in Mozambique." The New York Times A31, November 14, 1989.
"Notes from My Bed of Gloom; or, Why the Joking Had to Stop." The New York Times section 7.14, April 22, 1990.
"Heinlein Gets the Last Word." The New York Times section 7.13, December 9, 1990. Book revew.
"One Hell of a Country." The Guardian (London) 21, February 27, 1992. Reprinted in The Ottawa Citizen A11, August 31, 1992.
"America: Right and Wrong." The Gazette (Montreal) B3, September 12, 1992.
"Why My Dog Is Not a Humanist." Humanist 52.6:5-6, 1992.
"Why We Need Libraries." Reprinted in The Utne Reader 52.6:139, 1994.
The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: An Authorized Compendium. 1996. Author of the foreward.
Stories on beer bottles. 1997. No kidding. The story, "Merlin," muses on Gallahad with automatic weapons. On 22-ounce bottles of Denver Public Libation Ale from Wynkoop Brewing Company.
"Bernard Vonnegut: The Rainmaker." The New York Times section 6.17. January 4, 1998.
"Old Fashioned Gadgets." Forbes 266, November 30, 1998.

ADAPTATIONS from VONNEGUT'S WORK

Silver Screen. Films have been made of Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971; Mark Robson, director), Slaughterhouse Five (1972; George Roy Hill, director), Next Door (1974), Slapstick (1983; Steven Paul, director), and Mother Night (1996; Keith Gordon, director). Breakfast of Champions (Alan Rudolph, director) has completed filming and awaiting release while Sirens of Titan is rumored to be moving towards the big screen.
Stage. Welcome to the Monkey House (1970, 1974); The Sirens of Titan (1974); Cat's Cradle (1976); God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater was produced as a musical (1979; adapted by Howard Ashman and Alan Menkin) and most recently was presented by HumDrum AmDram in Portsmouth, UK. Slaughterhouse-Five was staged as an opera at the Munich Opera Festival: adapted by Hans-J?gen von Bose, "Schlachthof 5" premiered at the Cuvilli? Theater on July 1, 1996; also adapted for stage at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre 1996.
The Box. TV productions have been adapted from "D.P." (1958, produced as "Auf Wiedersehen; 1985, produced as "Displaced Persons"), "Epicac" (1974, 1992), "Who Am I This Time?" (1982), "All the King's Horses" (1991), "Next Door" (1991), "The Euphio Question" (1991), "Fortitude" (1992), "The Foster Portfolio" (1992), "More Stately Mansions" (1992), and "Harrison Bergeron" (1995).