Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan. He was 84 and had homes in Manhattan and in Sagaponack on Long Island.

blogpost :: by Brad Rose   comments (7)

at 11 April, 2007 22:11,  Cola Nitida said...

oh man, such bad news. one of the greats.  

at 11 April, 2007 22:34,  Kenneth Zubiate said...

Suddenly, the term "modern literature" got a lot less cool. He will be missed.  

at 12 April, 2007 09:54,  Bruno Parisse said...

rip

yes the "classic litterature" underestimates too often the sociological analyze and the "avant-garde" (not futuristic) vision of our society that you can read in the books of the sci-fi writers..

I'm digging a lot Robert Silverberg's work  

at 12 April, 2007 16:01,  stephen said...

An eulogy of sorts here.  

at 12 April, 2007 20:56,  Eden Hemming Rose said...

The world is definitely a dimmer place without him in it.  

at 13 April, 2007 03:09,  Lloyd Barrett said...

Damn - love this guy! One of my favourites amongst many is this short piece...

http://www.phpsolvent.com/wordpress/?page_id=388  

at 16 April, 2007 09:41,  Mark said...

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|..................|
|..EVERYTHING..|
|WAS BEAUTIFUL|
|.AND NOTHING.|
|......HURT......|
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