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    Que levante mi mano quién crea en la telequinesis: y otros mandamientos para corromper a la juventud

    By Kurt Vonnegut

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    El presente volumen consta de nueve discursos inéditos, siete de ellos dirigidos a estudiantes universitarios en días de dichosa graduación. Es éste un género muy peculiar de la oratoria norteamericana que ha dado lugar a piezas memorables adornadas con nobles sentimientos, recuerdos edificantes y melifluos elixires emitidos por autoridades de intachable prestigio moral o intelectual. El autor de 'Matadero Cinco' también gozaba de una excelente reputación, pero él mismo se encargaba de sabotearla para ejercer un magisterio terrestre, coloquial, benévolo y satírico (cuando llegaba la hora de los dardos). Los parlamentos aquí reunidos y la guinda que los corona son Vonnegut en estado puro: la quintaesencia de su tono, la campante sublimación de sus estacazos, la pólvora de su estilo y el filo de un estilete rematado por la punta con un florilegio de agudezas que servirá de postre para la meditación cogitabunda. O sea: Kurt al cuadrado y, en ocasiones, al cubo. Si "el cuerdo parece un chiflado cuando la sociedad enloquece", este libro es la muestra más acabada de una cordura lunática.
    LanguageEspañol
    PublisherMALPASO
    Release dateSep 1, 2015
    ISBN9788415996606
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    Que levante mi mano quién crea en la telequinesis: y otros mandamientos para corromper a la juventud
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    Kurt Vonnegut

    Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Siren's of Titan in 1959 and established him as ""a true artist"" with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene has declared, ""one of the best living American writers.""

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    • 4/5
      Where was Kurt Vonnegut at my college graduation?! We had George Bush, Sr. In this collection of Vonnegut's commencement addresses, common themes repeat: our need for community, the need to be kind, the empty promises of money and culturally defined success, and the importance of recognizing the good moments in our lives -- hence the title. Very funny, often provocative, and ultimtely wise. A little dose of his inspiration goes a long way.
    • 5/5
      A book collecting the graduation speeches of Vonnegut. Obviously not up to his novels and short stories but his omnipresent humour and worldview shines through. Obviously you can`t give less than 4 1/2 stars to a Vonnegut book.Only for fans!
    • 4/5
      A wonderful short collection of graduation speeches Vonnegut gave between the years of 1996 and 2004 (3 years before his death). Fun, advice filled, with his themes on love, patience, doing the right thing, common decency, and being kind to everyone, Vonnegut's speeches are as poignant now to us - non-graduat(ing/es) - as it was to those graduating that he gave the speech to.
    • 3/5
      Slightly less trite than normal graduation speeches.
    • 4/5
      This is a great little collection of Vonnegut's speeches, and the audiobook is well read -- the reader hasn't got the gravel of Vonnegut's voice, but it also removes some of the alarm you might have felt if the ghost of Kurt Vonnegut were actually reading it.Like watching a good stand-up comic's every YouTube video, you'll find a lot of repetition of the things, the material that Vonnegut really cared about, but if you dole out the speeches piecemeal and just listen every once in a while you'll get a good heaping of humanist philosophy every few days that's worth hearing over and over again.
    • 4/5
      While I don't agree with Vonnegut's worldview, the speeches collected here have a worthy wit and much insight.
    • 5/5
      Excellent graduation gift...priceless advice from one of America's best and wittiest writers. Even if you're years past graduation age, you'll find insight and wisdom that will help in any sort of pickle. And a few chuckles as well.
    • 4/5
      This book was somewhat amusing. The author says "when a husband and wife fight, it may seem to be about money or sex or power. But what they're really yelling at each other about is loneliness. What they're really saying is, "You're not enough people. ...tell them to become more people for each other by joining a synthetic extended family - like the Hell's Angel's perhaps." It's one of my favorite quotes in the book along with, "putting a letter in a corer mailbox is like feeding a great big bullfrog painted blue." Full of wittyness that is Kurt Vonnegut. If you you love him you'll love this book. My only downfall with the book is since it is speeches from several colleges many of the same stories pop up again and again. Maybe one time too many.
    • 3/5
      This is a collection of graduation speeches given by a member of the greatest generation to the baby boom generation. While I never saw one of his speeches, I now understand why he was so popular among our generation....he was a rebel and a bit of a satirist. The latter makes him a fun read/listen. For example, Vonnegut derides semicolons as an indicator of a college education. Have I used a semicolon in this review?
    • 4/5
      Vonnegut was a masterful writer- able to satirize and enlighten. I read his books eagerly as a teen and young adult. This volume- a collection of his grad speeches- offers insight into the man himself. The preface is too long- many of his best tidbits are given away in it and his speeches do have repetitive themes- but there they are definitely worth listening to-- the need humans have for other human contact, the imortance of giving thanks to your best teachers, the high cost and significance of becoming educated, the need to read...(I 'read' this in audio format.) I was pleased to hear him expound on modern times and learned that he had only died in 2007.