2 B R 0 2 B | The Pink Classics

2 B R 0 2 B | The Pink Classics

Por Sheba Blake, Kurt Vonnegut

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Sinopsis

2 B R 0 2 B is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the digest magazine Worlds of If Science Fiction, January 1962, and collected in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999). The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B", referencing the famous phrase "to be, or not to be" from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. In this story, the title refers to the telephone number one dials to schedule an assisted suicide with the Federal Bureau of Termination. Vonnegut's 1965 novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater describes a story by this name, attributing it to his recurring character Kilgore Trout, although the plot summary given is closer in nature to the eponymous tale from his short-story collection Welcome to the Monkey House. The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans, and population control is used to limit the population of the United States to forty million. This is maintained through a combination of infanticide and government-assisted suicide - in short, in order for someone to be born, someone must first volunteer to die. As a result, births are few and far between, and deaths occur primarily by accident.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Realizó estudios de química en la Universidad de Cornell, que tuvo que interrumpir para unirse al ejército estadounidense durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En 1945, presenció como prisionero de guerra la matanza de cientos de miles de civiles en el bombardeo de Dresde. Esta experiencia lo marcó para siempre, tanto como el suicidio de su madre y la muerte de su hermana, para quien decía que escribía. Publicó libros de ensayos y de cuentos y obras de teatro, pero es en sus novelas donde Vonnegut consigue desplegar la verdadera originalidad de su imaginación, su visión pesimista del mundo y su inconfundible sarcasmo. Entre ellas, se destacan < em > Madre noche < /em > (1961), < em > Matadero cinco < /em > (1969), < em > Desayuno de campeones < /em > (1973, de próxima aparición en La Bestia Equilátera) y < em > Galápagos < /em > (1987). Murió en Nueva York el 11 de abril de 2007 a los 84 años. < br / > < em > Cuna de gato < /em > es su cuarta novela. 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