![]() ![]() The novel opens as Howard languishes in a prison in Israel, awaiting a fair trial for the war crimes he is accused of committing during the Second World War. Vonnegut uses metafiction to slip between the “present day” Howard in which he’s telling his story, and the “past” Howard where he’s living the events as they unfold. It is a first-person account narrated by Howard of his life prior, during and immediately following World War II, which is the major set piece of Howard’s life and what gives him the occasion to write his story down in the first place. ![]() Campbell Jr., who also appears briefly in one of Vonnegut’s other novels, Slaughterhouse-5. Mother Night, a Kurt Vonnegut novel published and set in 1961, presents itself as a fictionalized memoir of Howard W. ![]()
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