Player Piano
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A great book. First published AD 1952, written in English
Player Piano is the debut novel by American writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr., published in 1952. The novel depicts a dystopia of automation partly inspired by the author's time working at General Electric, describing the negative impact technology can have on quality of life. The story takes place in a near-future society that is almost totally mechanized, eliminating the need for human laborers. The widespread mechanization creates conflict between the wealthy upper class, the engineers and managers, who keep society running, and the lower class, whose skills and purpose in society have been replaced by machines. The book uses irony and sentimentality, which were to become hallmarks developed further in Vonnegut's later works.
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What it draws on
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Yevgeny Zamyatin, AD 1924
Vonnegut said he cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Zamyatin's We: an engineered society, an engineer who rebels against it, and a revolt that fails.
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“We directly inspired: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) (Disputed by Huxley, see above.) Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading (1935–1936) Ayn Rand's Anthem (1938) George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952) William F.” Read it there
The author’s life
- New York City
Died here, United States
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