Pilgrim's Progress: Is Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Winning His War with Machines?

'''Broer, Lawrence. "Pilgrim's Progress: Is Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Winning His War with Machines?"' CW'' [137]-61.

Psychological approach to Vonnegut's work, stressing Breakfast of Champions, written in part in response to sociological readings of Vonnegut's canon, such as that of T. P. Hoffman's "The Theme of Mechanization in Player Piano," cited in this Category. "Like D. H. Lawrence before him, Vonnegut demonstrates the connection between the modern world with its inhuman industrial empire and the impotent, hopeless, and neurotic life of its citizens" (148). Rpt. with revisions in LB's Sanity Plea: Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1989).