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Kurt Vonnegut is a name ensconced in the literary canon as one of the finest exponents of the bizarrely fragmented and unstable Postmodern American experience. Part humourist and part visionary, Vonnegut endured the militarism, materialism, as well as the different biological and mechanical failures that characterised the twentieth century zeitgeist.His works make a foray into the human predicament through a spiritual, prophetically unsuccessful and judgemental frame of mind. A significant number of Vonnegut's books utilize science-fiction and dream methods to depict his angst about the dangers posed by the modern innovations. In a commendable literary career spanning five decades, he embarks on narratives through which he parodies and mocks the supercilious and dangerous attitudes of the contemporary man. He accomplishes his target by anticipating a dream of things to come in the world.