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WRITER’S PLACE AND FUNCTION IN SOCIETY (BY K. VONNEGUT’S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ESSAYS)
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Mariya Konstantinovna Ivanova
Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov
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Submitted:
November 20, 2012
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Abstract.
The author reveals Kurt Vonnegut’s views on the functions that a writer should perform in modern society, and, analyzing Vonnegut’s social and political essays, dwells on his theory that every creator is endowed with a special flair that allows him feeling the approach of a disaster earlier than other people can do it and warning them of danger. Society itself but not the state puts such a function on a writer. The attempt to derogate a writer’s right to be heard by audience is equivalent to the desire to hide the truth about the real state of affairs in the state.
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Key words and phrases:
Курт Воннегут
публицистика
писательство
цензура
свобода слова
комиссия по порнографии
Американская библиотечная ассоциация
Kurt Vonnegut
social and political essays
writing
censorship
freedom of speech
Commission on Pornography
American Library Association
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