Kurt Vonnegut and New Journalism
Download paperPostgraduate student at the Chair of Foreign Journalism and Literature, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Kurt Vonnegut is not traditionally considered as a representative of the New Journalism of the 60—70s of the XX century. The author holds the same position, but also believes that the New Journalism has had some influence on the writer’s work. The paper analyzes Vonnegut’s essays for correspondence with basic rules used by Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Rex, Joan Didion while creating their texts. The author presents the close connection between Vonnegut’s fiction and non-fiction as the main argument.