Mother Night (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Kurt Vonnegut
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Comic realism
- Time of Work: 1938-1961
- Setting: Nazi Germany, New York City, and Israel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: New York
- Locales: New York, NY
Characters Discussed
Howard W. Campbell, Jr., the protagonist, a pitiful, abandoned, forty-eight-year-old “citizen of nowhere.” American-born, he moved with his family to Berlin at the age of eleven. By 1938, at the age of twenty-six, he is a successful writer and producer of medieval romance plays, all starring his beloved wife, Helga. At this time, he is recruited by Major Frank Wirtanen to be an American secret agent posing as a Nazi radio propagandist. Thought to be a vile Nazi hatemonger (only three people know of his services as an American secret agent), Campbell is...
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Kurt Vonnegut (Censorship--Ready Reference series)Kurt Vonnegut (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Kurt Vonnegut (Short Fiction)Kurt Vonnegut (Long Fiction)Kurt Vonnegut (Identities and Issues)
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