Palm Sunday is a collection of short stories, speeches, essays, letters and other previously unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut, published in 1981.
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Contents [1] :
- Introduction
- First amendment
- Dear Mr. McCarthy ( Dear Mr. McCarthy , letter)
- The Unthinkable Absurdity ( Un-American Nonsense , article for The New York Times )
- God's Law (speech)
- Dear Felix ( Dear Felix , letter)
- The roots
- Report on the ancestors of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., composed by an old friend of his family ( An Account of the Ancestry of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, by an Ancient Friend of His Family , academic work by John Rauch, John G. Raunch )
- How i lost my innocence
- What I liked about Cornell ( What I Liked About Cornell , Speech)
- How I Lost Innocence ( When I Lost My Innocence , essay)
- I'm ashamed ( I Am Embarrassed , Speech)
- Sucks
- About the literary style ( How to Write with Style , essay)
- Auto Interview
- Self-interview from The Paris Review
- Acquaintances
- Who in America is living well ( Who in America is Truly Happy?, Article)
- Something Happened ( Something Happened , Review for The New York Times by Joseph Heller's novel of the same name)
- Rocky Graziano of American Letters (speech)
- The Best of Bob and Ray ( The Best of Bob and Ray , introduction to the collection by Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding)
- James T. Farrell (funeral speech)
- Childhood friends
- Avalanche Lyon ( Lavina Lyon , funeral speech)
- 1957 Edition ( The Class of '57 , song by Don Reed and Harold Reed from Statler Brothers )
- Pasta Factory ( The Noodle Factory , speech)
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain ( Mark Twain , Speech)
- Written jokes
- How jokes work ( How Jokes Work , parting words to graduates)
- Shame
- Religion
- No need to grieve ( Do Not Mourn!, Speech written by great-grandfather Kurt Vonnegut)
- Thoughts of an Atheist ( Thoughts of a Free Thinker , Parting words to graduates)
- William Ellery Channing (Speech)
- Obscenity
- Big Space Fuck (story)
- Children
- Fear and Loathing in Morristown, NJ ( Fear and Loathing in Morristown, NJ , Speech)
- Dear Mr. H. ( Dear Mr X , letter to Nanette Vonnegut)
- Misunderstood Jonathan Swift
- Jonathan Swift ( Jonathan Swift , rejected introduction to Gulliver's Travels )
- Jekyll and Hyde in a New Way
- Professor of Chemistry ( The Chemistry Professor , musical comedy)
- Nazi fan acquitted at a loss
- Louis Ferdinand Céline (foreword)
- Nazi city mourned with profit
- Again about Dresden ( Dresden Revisited , preface to the re-release of “The Slaughter ...”)
- Sexual revolution
- Flowers on the Wall (Lew DeWitt song from Statler Brothers )
- In the capital of the world
- Palm Sunday ( Palm Sunday sermon)
Ratings
In chapter 18, “The Sexual Revolution,” Vonnegut evaluates his own work. He points out that his assessments are “not related to my place in the history of literature,” and he “compares himself to himself.” He calls his greatest contribution to culture his master's thesis in anthropology , rejected by the University of Chicago .
- Mechanical piano : 4
- 5 Titanium Sirens
- Mother of Darkness : 5
- Cradle for cat : 5+
- May God give you health, Mr. Rosewater : 5
- Slaughterhouse Five, or Children's Crusade : 5+
- Welcome to the monkey : 4−
- Happy Birthday, Wanda June : 4 [2]
- Breakfast for champions : 3
- Vampiters, Thomas and Granfallos : 3
- Hocus Pocus : 4 [2]
- Repeat offender : 5
- Palm Sunday : 3
Notes
- ↑ Russian-language names are given by Kurt Vonnegut. Palm Sunday = Palm Sunday. - M .: AST, 2014 .-- 350 p. - ISBN 9785170800957 .
- ↑ 1 2 Russian-language marks are given by Kurt Vonnegut. Palm Sunday = Palm Sunday. - M .: AST, 2014 .-- 350 p. - ISBN 9785170800957 . ; presumably in English editions this work is marked with a rating of D, i.e. 2