Mr. Kurt Vonnegut, dead at 84

by angryindian | April 11, 2007 at 10:24 pm

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A true legend in American literature, Mr. Kurt Vonnegut, dead at 84. - The Angryindian

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Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies at age 84 - Yahoo! News

NEW
YORK - Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity
of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works
such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," died Wednesday. He
was 84.

Vonnegut, who often marveled that he
had lived so long despite his lifelong smoking habit, had suffered
brain injuries after a fall at his Manhattan home weeks ago, said his
wife, photographer Jill Krementz.

The author of at least 19
novels, many of them best-sellers, as well as dozens of short stories,
essays and plays, Vonnegut relished the role of a social critic. He
lectured regularly, exhorting audiences to think for themselves and
delighting in barbed commentary against the institutions he felt were
dehumanizing people.

"I will say anything to be funny, often in
the most horrible situations," Vonnegut, whose watery, heavy-lidded
eyes and unruly hair made him seem to be in existential pain, once told
a gathering of psychiatrists.