Vonnegut’s Breakfast tr. de Cecilia Ceriani y Txaro Santoro BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS El Desayuno de los Campeones [With Drawings By The Author] de by 5 Kurt Vonnegut KURT VONNEGUT 10 Copyright © 1973 by Kurt Vonnegut trad. de Cecilia Ceriani y Txaro Santoro Cover art and e-Foreword to the electronic edition co- pyright© 2000 by RosettaBooks, LLC con dibujos del autor For information address
[email protected] First electronic edition published 2000 by Anagrama,. Barcekiba, 1999 15 RosettaBooks LLC, New York. ISBN 0-7953-0241-X 20 eForeword “We are healthy only to the extent that 25 our ideas are humane” — so reads the epitaph for Kilgore Trout, who is one of several alter egos of the author Kurt Vonnegut in his explosively funny and ironic 1973 novel Breakfast of Champions. The 30 world Vonnegut explores is not a healthy one — as the title suggests, it is the United States of America in the age of Vietnam, Nixon and the Silent Majority — but it is desperately trying to seem so. An obscure 35 science fiction writer takes a wild road trip to the middle of the Midwest, where his fate becomes intertwined with that of a successful car dealer who is slowly going mad. Vonnegut takes this opportunity to 40 question a number of assumptions, including the very nature of the novel he is writing. A tour de force of imagination and scathing insight, Breakfast of Champions is one of the most discussed and widely read 45 American novels of the late 20th century. The American novelist Kurt Vonnegut (b.