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| Author | Kurt Vonnegut |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Leo and Diane Dillon |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Dark humour, metafiction |
| Publisher | Fawcett Publications/Gold Medal Books |
Publication date | 1962 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover & paperback) |
| Pages | 192 |
| ISBN | 978-0-385-33414-3 |
Mother Night is a novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut, first published in February 1962.[1][2]
The novel takes the form of the fictional memoirs of Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American, who moved to Germany in 1923 at age 11, and later became a well-known playwright and Nazi propagandist. The story of the novel is narrated (through the use of metafiction[3]) by Campbell himself, writing his memoirs while awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison. Campbell also appears briefly in Vonnegut's later novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
- ^ Mother Night 1962 publication contents at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ^ Bibliography in The Vonnegut Effect by Jerome Klinkowitz, Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2012.
- ^ Bueren, Emma (24 May 2016). "Off the shelf: 'Mother Night,' by Kurt Vonnegut". The Daily of the University of Washington. Archived from the original on 2019-04-03. Retrieved 2019-04-03.