Mother Night

by Kurt Vonnegut · first published 1961

Mother Night is a novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut, first published in February 1962. The novel takes the form of the fictional memoirs of Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American, who moved to Germany in 1923 at age 11 and later became a well-known playwright, Nazi propagandist, and American spy. The story of the novel is narrated (through the use of metafiction) by Campbell himself, writing his memoirs while awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison, heavily influenced by Adolf Eichmann's time on trial in Jerusalem. Campbell also appears briefly in Vonnegut's later novel Slaughterhouse-Five.

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Genre:

Metafiction, Black comedy

Original language:

English

Year page:

1961