He never quite comes to terms with his “pretending” and the results of his actions.Ĭampbell provides considerable exposition in his narrative, including his early history, how he met his wife Helga (a seductive and manipulative Trish Lindstrom), how he lived in Greenwich Village for fifteen years following the war, and how he ended up in an Israeli prison.
Campbell lives this double life as a Nazi propagandist and a spy who uses his pro-Third Reich broadcasts to filter important information to the Allies. Between these first and seventh Tracks, Campbell discloses how he arrived in Germany, how he became affiliated with both the Nazi Party and with Wirtanen (an intense and secretive Andrea Gallo) an American intelligence operative who convinces him to be an American spy. The play ends in the same prison where Campbell learns of his impending release and his decision to be the sole judge of his future. Vonnegut’s forty-five short chapters are distilled successfully into Brian Katz’s seven “Tracks.”
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Adapted from Kurt Vonnegut’s novel by the company’s Founding Artistic Director, the play begins with the forty-eight-year-old Campbell in an Israeli prison in Old Jerusalem awaiting trial for his collusion with the Nazis. Howard Campbell’s (an even tempered and soft-spoken Gabriel Grilli) non-linear journey from Nazi Germany’s radio propaganda machine in World War II to his self-execution in 1961 is the subject of The Custom Made Theatre Company’s “Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night,” currently running at 59E59 Theaters. Furthermore, CEEOL allows publishers to reach new audiences and promote the scientific achievements of the Eastern European scientific community to a broader readership.“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” – Howard Campbell CEEOL offers various services to subscribing institutions and their patrons to make access to its content as easy as possible. Currently, CEEOL covers more than 2000 journals and 690.000 articles, over 4500 ebooks and 6000 grey literature document. CEEOL provides scholars, researchers and students with access to a wide range of academic content in a constantly growing, dynamic repository. Currently, over 1000 publishers entrust CEEOL with their high-quality journals and e-books. In the rapidly changing digital sphere CEEOL is a reliable source of adjusting expertise trusted by scholars, publishers and librarians. The hereby paper aims at the internal struggle within the protagonist which is gradually dramatized, making the reader ask himself if Campbell pretends only to be a Nazi or he is one and at Vonnegut’s special way of addressing other aspects of World War II, such as the power of words, rather than the power of bombs, to support the Nazi war effort in a war narrative where light and darkness are hard to distinguish.ĬEEOL is a leading provider of academic e-journals and e-books in the Humanities and Social Sciences from and about Central and Eastern Europe. Campbell Jr., as the main character of a very complex war story.
Therefore, the action of the novel is narrated by Howard W. Summary/Abstract: Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night, written in 1962, shares with its readers the war experience as seen by the author. Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI Keywords: war identity message fiction hero Subject(s): Studies of Literature, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Theory of Literature THE TRAGIC HERO WITH TWO FACES: CAMPBELL IN VONNEGUT’S MOTHER NIGHT Author(s): Edith-Hilde Kaiter THE TRAGIC HERO WITH TWO FACES: CAMPBELL IN VONNEGUT’S MOTHER NIGHT
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