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To graph a story, Vonnegut wrote in Palm Sunday, you simply have to crucify it. Draw yourself two axes, with X representing the story’s chronology from beginning (B) to end (E), and Y representing the protagonist’s fortune from good (G) to ill (I).
25 mai 2018 · The thesis sank without a trace, but Vonnegut continued throughout his life to promote the big idea behind it, which was: “stories have shapes which can be drawn on graph paper”.
11 nov. 2021 · For Kurt Vonnegut, the true movement of a story lays in a character’s happiness. If you have 17 minutes to spare today, I recommend you give it a watch and maybe plot your own happiness, too. In fact, tag yourself. (We’re Kafka’s cockroach.)
24 juin 2020 · Vonnegut’s short stories generally fall into two broad categories: those that are science fiction, and those that are not. The science fiction characteristically pictures a future society controlled by government and technology, whose norms have made human life grotesque.
26 nov. 2012 · This season has been ripe with Kurt Vonnegut releases, from the highly anticipated collection of his letters to his first and last works introduced by his daughter, shedding new light on the beloved author both as a complex character and a masterful storyteller.
13 juil. 2016 · Kurt Vonnegut championed this idea of narrative shapes in his master’s thesis in Anthropology. The thesis was rejected for being too simplistic but it turns out that Vonnegut was just way ahead of his time.
21 sept. 2015 · The fundamental thesis behind the delightful graphs Vonnegut uses to depict everything from Cinderella to Kafka to Hamlet, is that, in his own words “stories have shapes which can be drawn on graph paper”.
