Mother night

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Kurt Vonnegut: Mother night (1981, Dell)

202 pages

English language

Published June 30, 1981 by Dell.

ISBN:
978-0-440-55853-8
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Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.

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"No young person on earth is so excellent in all respects as to need no uncritical love."


"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile."


" 'There are plenty of good reasons for fighting,' I said, 'but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive.

'It's that part of an imbecile,' I said, 'that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.' "

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