Bibliograph

Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut

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Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Bluebeard

Responsibility statement

Kurt Vonnegut

Summary

An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man's compulsion to create and destroy what he loves. Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story--and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man's careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves

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