ABSTRACT
This work is a study of Kurt Vonnegut's four personal novels:
Slaughterhouse-Five (1968), Breakfast of Champions (1973),
Slapstick (1976), and Jailbird (1979). These novels are
considered the personal novels of Vonnegut because they are rife
with autobiography and filled with Vonnegut's personal
philosophies. The reader needs to bear in mind that the placement
of the examples cited under their respective subject headings has
been made at my discretion, and that the author realizes that
many of the examples could nearly as easily fit under a different
subject heading.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 - AUTOBIOGRAPHY
CHAPTER 2 - PHILOSOPHY AND OPINIONS
CHAPTER 3 - STYLE
WORKS CITED
