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Kurt Vonnegut as an author has defied the normal norms of storytelling and has been very successful at it. The use of fragmentation in has been a weapon he has used to good effect. It starts of as being confusing and chaotic but as it goes on ....

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... to put himself into the novels (Lundquist 4). takes place almost entirely within Hitler's Germany. It is perhaps Vonnegut's most autobiographical work to date, the action occurring in and around , the very hellhole in which he toiled for his captors. The former is no doubt less autobiographical, but the main character certainly has many things in common with his creator: an American artist within Nazi Germany, doing what he felt was necessary to stay alive and to further his work. The author himself tells us he had to write this book. His subtitle “A Duty-Dance with Death” also takes on a personal aspect. Vonnegut had to rec ...