Player Piano
Kurt VonnegutPlayer Piano (1952), Vonnegut's first novel, embeds and foreshadows themes which are to be parsed and dramatized by academians for centuries to come. His future society—a marginal extrapolation, Vonnegut wrote, of the situation he observed as an employee of General Electric in which machines were replacing people increasingly and without any regard for their fate—is mechanistic and cruel, indifferent to human consequence, almost in a state of merriment as human wreckage accumulates. Paul Proteus, the novel's protagonist, is an engineer at Ilium Works and first observes with horror and then struggles to reverse the displacement of human labor by machines.
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Рік:
1980
Видавництво:
RosettaBooks
Мова:
english
ISBN 10:
0795311974
ISBN 13:
9780795311970
Файл:
EPUB, 1.83 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1980