Volume 15, Number 1 · July 2, 1970
Easy Writer
By Jack Richardson
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Dell, 186 pp., $1.95 (paper)
There are many types of social fantasts in literature, but the quality common to them all is a suspicion that the accepted customs of human society, if carried to their logical conclusions, would prove to be grotesquely absurd. Thus Swift, who, next to David Hume, had the best analytic imagination of his century, laid out a micro- and macroscopic demonstration of man and his society as no more than a Brobdingnagian piece of vanity and something less than a fraternity of honest beasts.
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