Oedipal Wrecks
Michael Mason, 26 March 1992
Fates Worse than Death
by Kurt Vonnegut.
Cape, 240 pp., £14.99, October 1991,0 224 02918 5 Show More
by Kurt Vonnegut.
Cape, 240 pp., £14.99, October 1991,
“... crisis at this period. Even if we take his word for it that Breakfast of Champions, despite its black themes, betokened recovery, and a psychic breakfasting, by Vonnegut the man, it is evident that Vonnegut the novelist was not at ease. He puts himself into the story – which is an oddity in his fiction – and has himself saying: ‘this is a very bad ... ”