Jan 2, 2010
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel, belongs to a category referred to as dystopian fiction. Such works depict a future in which scientific advances create a new, nightmarish world. Vonnegut’s setting is the fictional city of Ilium after World War III. Society is run by an elite of manager-engineers. They all live on one side of the river. On the other side of the river live those whose jobs have been taken by automation. They are supported by the state on pensions or in make-work employment. Without jobs or purpose, these displaced persons lack...
[The entire page is 523 words long]
©2000-2010
Enotes.com Inc.
All Rights Reserved