Breakfast of Champions

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303 pages

English language

Published May 11, 1999

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978-0-385-33420-4
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Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. His seventh novel, it is set predominantly in the fictional town of Midland City, Ohio, and focuses on two characters: Dwayne Hoover, a Midland resident, Pontiac dealer and affluent figure in the city, and Kilgore Trout, a widely published but mostly unknown science fiction author. Breakfast of Champions deals with themes of free will, suicide, and race relations, among others. The novel is full of drawings by the author, substituting descriptive language with depictions requiring no translation.

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Kurt Vonnegut's Iconic Satire: Absurdity, Capitalism, and Human Life in 'Breakfast of Champions'

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Kurt Vonnegut is known for his absurd, simplistic, unconventional, and often satirical writing style. Within the pages of Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut confronts the issues of race, poverty, and the distribution of wealth in America. He criticizes the capitalist system and consumerism, exposing the hypocrisy of a society that marginalizes and mistreats its own members. Another significant theme in the book is the environmental destruction caused by overpopulation and industrial pollution. Vonnegut paints a grim picture of a planet damaged by human activities, forcing readers to confront the consequences of our actions.