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See more about this book on Archive. Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr. Mother Night A Novel 1st edition is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all. Previews available in: English. Add another edition? Learn about the virtual Library Leaders Forum happening this month. Mother night Kurt Vonnegut. Want to Read. Download for print-disabled. Check nearby libraries WorldCat. Buy this book Better World Books. Share this book Facebook. Last edited by ImportBot. July 31, History. An edition of Mother Night Written in English — pages. Not in Library. Mother nightDial Press. Mother nightDelta Trade Paperbacks. Mother NightVintage. Mother Night May 21,Vintage. Mother Night October 1,Dell. Mother Mother Night A Novel 1st editionDell. Mother Night MayDelacorte Pr. Mother nightDell Pub. Mother Night. Mother night. Mother Night March 15,Delta. Mother nightJonathan Cape. Mother NightJonathan Cape. Mother nightDelacorte Press. Checked Out. Mother nightFawcett Publications. Mother night Publish date unknown, Cape. Classifications Library of Congress PZ4. V Mo, PS O5 Mo. Loading Related Books. Paperback - 1st Dell printing. July 31, Edited by ImportBot. July 22, Edited by Clean Up Bot. May Mother Night A Novel 1st edition, November 3, Edited by sherryjaye. October 17, Created by WorkBot. Mother Night by Vonnegut, Kurt

The title of the book is taken from Goethe's Faust. The novel takes the form of the fictional memoirs of Howard Mother Night A Novel 1st edition. Campbell Jr. The story of the novel is narrated through the use of metafiction [3] by Campbell himself, Mother Night A Novel 1st edition his memoirs while awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison. Howard W. Campbell also appears briefly in Vonnegut's later novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The novel is framed as the memoir of Howard W. Campbell, Jr. He is writing it while imprisoned and waiting for his war crimes trial for his actions as a Nazi propagandist. Campbell, an American who moved to Germany with his parents at age 11, recounts his childhood as the Nazi Party is consolidating its power. Instead of leaving the Mother Night A Novel 1st edition with his parents, Campbell continues his career as a playwright, his only social contacts being Nazis. Being of sufficiently Aryan heritage, Campbell becomes a member of the party in name only. He is politically apathetic, caring only for his art and his wife Helga, who is also the starring actress in all of his plays. Campbell encounters Frank Mother Night A Novel 1st edition, an agent of the U. War Department. Wirtanen wants Campbell to spy as a double agent for the United States in the impending world war. Campbell rejects the offer, but Wirtanen quickly adds that he wants Campbell to think about it. Once the war starts, Campbell begins to make his way up through ' propaganda organization, eventually becoming the "voice" of broadcasts aimed at converting Americans to the Nazi cause. Unbeknownst to the Nazis, all of the idiosyncrasies of Campbell's speeches — deliberate pauses, coughing, etc. Campbell never discovers, nor is he ever told, the information that he is sending. About halfway through the war, Helga goes to the Eastern Front to entertain German troops. Campbell is extremely distraught when he hears that the camp Helga visited in Crimea has been overrun by Soviet troops and she is presumed dead. In earlyjust before the Red Army invades Berlin, Campbell visits his in-laws one last time. During the visit, he has a conversation with Helga's younger sister, Resi, that resonates with him for years afterward. After Campbell is captured by American forces, Wirtanen works out a deal in which he is set free and given passage to . Fifteen years later, Campbell lives an anonymous life, sustained only by memories of his wife and an indifferent curiosity about his eventual fate. His only friend is George Kraft, a likewise lonely neighbor—who, through an extraordinary coincidence, also happens to be a Soviet intelligence agent. He tries to trick Campbell into fleeing to Mother Night A Novel 1st edition publicizing his identity and location. The Mother Night A Novel 1st edition leader, a dentist named Lionel Jones, shows up at Campbell's apartment with a surprise: a woman claiming to be Helga, alive and well and professing her undying love. Campbell's will to live returns, and remains even after he finds out that she is not Helga, but rather Resi. They plan to escape to Mexico City after attending one of Jones' fascist meetings. There, Wirtanen makes an appearance to warn Campbell of Kraft's plot and Resi's complicity. Heartbroken, Campbell decides to go along with the charade. He confronts Kraft and Resi, the latter swearing her feelings for him are genuine. The FBI then raids the meeting and takes Campbell into custody, while Resi commits suicide by taking a cyanide capsule. As Mother Night A Novel 1st edition, Wirtanen uses his influence to have Campbell set free. Once Campbell returns to his apartment, however, he realizes that he has no real reason to continue living, and decides to turn himself in to the Israelis to stand trial. While imprisoned in Israel, Campbell meets and gives him advice on how to write an autobiography. At the very end of the book, he inserts a letter that he has just received from Wirtanen. The corroborating evidence that he was indeed an American spy has finally arrived, and Wirtanen writes that he will testify to Campbell's true loyalties in court. Rather than being relieved, Campbell feels "nauseated" by the idea that he will be saved from death and granted freedom only when he is no longer able to enjoy anything that life has to offer. In Mother Night A Novel 1st edition last lines, Campbell tells the reader that he will hang himself not for crimes against humanitybut rather for "crimes against himself. Throughout the novel Vonnegut uses metafiction devices to call attention to the text itself. Most notable is Vonnegut's framing of the novel as a historical document. The editor's note at the beginning of the novel suggests Campbell's writings, the text of the novel itself, are a manuscript that Vonnegut received and is editing for public view. These devices of meta-fiction can also be expanded to include Vonnegut's approach to character introductions, and character development. Vonnegut utilizes the entirety of Campbell's temporal distance to observe characters from an almost omniscient perspective; for example, "His name is Andor Gutman. Andor is a sleepy, not very bright Estonian Jew. He spent two years in the extermination camp at Auschwitz. According to his own reluctant account, he came this close to going up a smokestack of a crematorium there. Rosewateror Breakfast of Championsthe pervading-style of prose throughout the book is largely intertwined with, as previously mentioned, meta-fiction techniques. Vonnegut's innovative literary Mother Night A Novel 1st edition is one of these techniques through which Vonnegut's trademark "so it goes Vonnegut also addresses the story's "moral" several times. He writes, "This is the only story of mine whose moral I know. I don't think it's a marvelous moral, Mother Night A Novel 1st edition just happen to know what it is It's good for you. InAudible. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Daily of the University of Washington. Archived from the original on Retrieved OnStage Blog. Kurt Vonnegut. Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library. Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Cover art of first edition paperback. Dark humourmetafiction. Wikiquote has quotations related to: Mother Night. 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