The Sirens of Titan: el universo post-modernista de Kurt Vonnegut

• Autores: Jesús Lerate de Castro
• Localización: REDEN: Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, ISSN 1131-9674, Nº 8, 1994, págs. 61-79
• Idioma: inglés
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  • A close reading of The Sirens of Titan reveals that this early novel by Kurt Vonnegut, far from being a mere science fiction tale ¿as it has often been labelled¿ is a first-rate literary work in which the author displays a great variety of metafictional devices. The metaphysical quest for meaning in life is paralleled by a tortous, roundabout physical journey where the ordered, controlled and harmonius universe¿ textually made coherent by its galactical structure and mythical allusions¿ is challenged dialogically by a world of chaos which is sown with the absurd, with unexpected lexical yuxtaposition, indeterminations and de-mythoiogizing parodies. This paper aims to explore this post-modernist natura of the novel