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Mother Night

by Kurt Vonnegut

Paperback, 192 pages

English language

Published July 10, 1968 by Vintage.

ISBN:: 978-0-09-981930-1

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Mother Night is a novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut, first published in February 1962. The title of the book is taken from Goethe's Faust (and ultimately from the Egyptian Goddess Nuit, mother of Osiris, Horus, Isis, Set, and Nephthys, and her counterparts in European religions, such as Skaði). The novel takes the form of the fictional memoirs of Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American, who moved to Germany in 1923 at age 11, and later became a well-known playwright and Nazi propagandist. The story of the novel is narrated (through the use of metafiction) by Campbell himself, writing his memoirs while awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison. Howard W. Campbell also appears briefly in Vonnegut's later novel Slaughterhouse-Five.

Mother Night is a novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut, first published in February 1962. The title of the book is taken from Goethe's Faust (and ultimately from the Egyptian Goddess Nuit, mother of Osiris, Horus, Isis, Set, and Nephthys, and her counterparts in European religions, such as Skaði). The novel takes the form of the fictional memoirs of Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American, who moved to Germany in 1923 at age 11, and later became a well-known playwright and Nazi propagandist. The story of the novel is narrated (through the use of metafiction) by Campbell himself, writing his memoirs while awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison. Howard W. Campbell also appears briefly in Vonnegut's later novel Slaughterhouse-Five.

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Že dolgo nisem bral Vonneguta in mi je kar malo žal zato. Zelo aktualna knjiga, predvsem zaradi ponovnega vstajanja faši/nacizma po svetu. Dobro reče: "Si, za kar se predstavljaš, da si." Še posebej, če se predstavljaš za nacista, čeprav nisi. Ali pač? Če te vsi poznajo po tem, za kar se izdajaš in samo ti veš resnico, kaj si potem? Vse kupim, samo tistega prizora z ženo, ki je kao ni prepoznal, ne.

Že dolgo nisem bral Vonneguta in mi je kar malo žal zato. Zelo aktualna knjiga, predvsem zaradi ponovnega vstajanja faši/nacizma po svetu. Dobro reče: "Si, za kar se predstavljaš, da si." Še posebej, če se predstavljaš za nacista, čeprav nisi. Ali pač? Če te vsi poznajo po tem, za kar se izdajaš in samo ti veš resnico, kaj si potem? Vse kupim, samo tistega prizora z ženo, ki je kao ni prepoznal, ne.

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5 stars

Favorite gems:

"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.' "

Favorite gems:

"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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