UMANISMUL LUI KURT VONNEGUT: DRUMUL UNUI AUTOR ÎNSPRE O PREDICĂ PENTRU PACE
KURT VONNEGUT’S HUMANISM: AN AUTHOR’S JOURNEY TOWARDS PREACHING FOR PEACE

Summary/Abstract: In a time of violence that is once more on the rise, it becomes useful to look back on the viewpoint of a writer and public speaker who preached humanism and peace. Throughout his career Kurt Vonnegut struggled to instill within his reader his personal notions of what is important in life. An individual’s most important duty, as Vonnegut saw it, was not really to make the whole world a better place, but to simply try to be decent to those around them every day. The present article endeavors to look back over the life of this Clown of Armageddon (as Peter Freese calls him) in order to understand how the author’s origins and experiences shaped the themes of his texts.

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