Breakfast masters


Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday, a novel by Kurt Vonnegut published in New York in 1973 by Delacorte Press.

The book is set in the United States in the fictional city of Midland City, and is the story of two "lonely, thin, aging white men on a fast-dying planet." On the first pages, the author begins to criticize the American approach to life, Western lies and false pride. summary

The lonely, underestimated, aging American writer SF Kilgore Trout (in some translations of The Killers Trout) gets an invitation to an art festival to take place in Midland City. He treats it as another joke or mistake, but decides to set off. Trout, working as a fitter of aluminum windows, takes modest savings and travels through the United States, wishing his arrival and speech to compromise the entire festival. On the way is attacked by unknown perpetrators and robbed from all cash, so that most of the trip takes place by hitchhiking. On the way through the windows of cars, it observes the environmental degradation caused by private concerns. At the same time, the car dealer, owner of several hotels and the richest man in Midland City - widower of Dwayne Hoover - starts to fall into madness. But none of the people around him noticed that. Hoover offends and harms many loved ones and people. His lover Francine Pfefko, also lonely, advises him to take part in the festival, where he can learn new ideas or ideas.

On arriving in Midland City, Kilgore Trout meets Hoover at a restaurant where the festival takes place and passes on the manuscript of his new, unpublished novel. Hoover is endowed with the ability to read fast, in a matter of minutes he learns that other people are just God-designed robots to test the response of the only true man to various events. He also learns that God has repeatedly brought him back to life after various incidents. Hoover identifies himself with this one true man. Since she is mentally unbalanced, and reading novels only this condition deepens, she attacks other people in the bar, taking them for work. There are over a dozen people, including Trout. Dwayne lands in prison, and the author concludes briefly that he ends up as a wretch after paying compensation to the victims of his assault.

The whole story is watched by the author, Kurt Vonnegut, who decides to finally settle with the hero of many of his books, Trout, and fulfill his wish. Trout asks him for his youth.



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