Champion Breakfast / Caged Bird

Author: Kurt Vonnegut (USA)
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Publish Date: 1998-01-01
Features: Commemorating Phoebe Helti, who gave me comfort in Indianapolis during the Great Depression. The two works in this book are excellent works by the American postmodernist writer Vonnegut in the 1970s. Breakfast of Champions is an absurd, anti-traditional novel. The science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, who frequently appears in Vonnegut's works, and the car dealer Dewey Hoover are living machines in a country called the United States, a shortened name for Earth. Both have flaws and meet under the author's arrangement, which occasionally appears in the book. Readers can see the author narrating a mad world with humorous and exaggerated language in this process. The illustrations drawn by the author himself are also a highlight of the novel. Player Piano is written in the first-person narrative form, describing the life of an elderly inmate who has been in prison three times. It interweaves historical episodes such as the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, McCarthyism, and the Watergate scandal, using black humor to mock social reality and achieving a unique social effect.