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Bluebeard (Delta Fiction) (Paperback)

by Kurt Vonnegut (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group (1 Feb 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 038533351X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385333511
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 491,373 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars You may never see the need to wallow in self-pity again?, 10 Jul 2000
By RW (Sheffield, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bluebeard (Mass Market Paperback)
We've all got a potato barn, it's just not always that easy to see that anyone else will give a damn whether it's full of spuds, or nuggets. A witty, perhaps in places bleak, but ultimately hopeful journey through a life. This book is packed full of juicy nuggets right up to the point that its final vista emerges from the splendid isolation born out of decades of self-deprocation. Quite brilliantly crafted writing from an ever peculiar, and yet strangely relevant, stand-point. Some day we will all come to see the world this way and laugh. Someday. So it goes.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A blending of wisdom and insanity., 10 Feb 2006
By Mr. Rgs Draycott "whiskydrinker" (penzance) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bluebeard (Paladin Books) (Paperback)
Vonnegut rounds up several familiar themes and character types for his 13th novel: genocide, the surreality of the modern world, fluid interplay of the past and present, and the less-than-heroic figure taking center stage to tell his story. Here he elevates to narrator a minor character from Breakfast of Champions , wounded World War II veteran and abstract painter Rabo Karabekian. At the urging of enchantress-as-bully Circe Berman, Karabekian writes his "hoax autobiography." Vonnegut uses the tale to satirize art movements and the art-as-investment mind-set and to explore the shifting shape of reality.

Vonnegut re-encapsulates several of his favorite themes: absurdity of war, America's prevalent loneliness, how the rich become rich. However, an interesting theme specific to Bluebeard is the discussion about art. What is art? Circe Berman stays on the best seller's list by generating volumes of teen novels while Paul Salinger lives a suicidal and depressed existence trying to create introspective critiques of humanity. Dan Gregory makes paintings equivalent to being a "taxidermist" where his subjects look more real on his canvas than in real life, while the abstract expressionists make unintelligible topics. Paul Salinger and the abstract expressionists look down on the others, but which is really better? The answer might be provided with the Rabo's greatest secret. Kept in a potato barn behind his mansion, its ultimate disclosure to the world makes a dramatic statement about art.

Here we have Vonnegut at his most focused on a long time, tearing off page after page that will make you laugh and stop and think at the same time. The reader will enjoy this book on several political and philosophical levels in addition to enjoying a fine story. It is tender yet sometimes loveless, a blending of wisdom and insanity.

This is the most fun I've had with a Vonnegut book in long time. Probably one of his more obscure works, it deserves to be read along with his other classics.

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5.0 out of 5 stars a really good shaggy dog story, 6 Oct 2001
By J. Tuffin "jontytuffin" (north yorkshire) - See all my reviews
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If you only ever read one Vonnegut story then it should be this one. It's just a great piece of story-telling. It keeps you hanging on right to the end because you just have to find out what's in the barn! And it really re-enforces the good things in life, because it shows you characters who you warm to, and it's a pleasure to spend time with them. This is just such an enjoyable book. It appears to be simple and straightfoward, but it stays with you for a long time afterwards. You should definately read it, because you'll most probably like it.
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