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Vonnegut înainte de Vonnegut... În „Introducerea” la această carte, prozatorul vorbește cu extremă modestie despre povestirile scrise la începutul anilor 50 ai secolului trecut: „Eram convins că nu fac nici cît o ceapă degerată. Nu voiam decît să-mi întrețin familia” (p.17). În „Cuvîntul final despre......more

How does one rate a collection of short stories? Should I rate each story then average them out? Or should I invent some amalgamated, conglomerated, overall valuation based on gut feelings and my present mood? I find it so much easier to rate nonfiction. Nonfiction seems much less arbitrary and capr......more

A collection of Vonnegut's earliest work for '50s/60s periodicals. As the Master himself points out in the marvellous introduction, these are embryonic stories, stylistically clumsy and written purely for financial gain. This doesn't make the work any less playful and Vonnegutian, though the bulk of......more

E aproape obositor să tot constat câți scriitori foarte buni au avut și încă au nord-americanii. Probabil, cea mai mare literatură a lumii.......more

Creative Writing 101: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. 4. Every sentence must do one of two......more