[New-Poetry] Dostoyevsky and Vonnegut

[Anny Ballardini]

It's the birthday of *Fyodor
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*, (books by this
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born in Moscow (1821). He had just graduated from engineering school when he
wrote his first novel, *Poor Folk* (1846). When he finished the novel, he
gave it to some friends, and they stayed up all night reading it. At 4:00 in
the morning, they pounded on Dostoyevsky's door to wake him up and tell him
that he'd written a masterpiece. He later said that was the happiest moment
of his life. He went on to write *The Gambler* (1866), *Crime and Punishment
* (1866), *The Idiot* (1868), *The Possessed* (1872), and *The Brothers
Karamazov* (1880).

It's the birthday of *Kurt Vonnegut
Jr.<http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=fj6,ck8f,dv,j1et,4hb,3hrs,fxvj>
*, (books by this
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born in Indianapolis, Indiana (1922). He joined the Army, and in December of
1944, he was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He was
imprisoned in a slaughterhouse in Dresden. On the night of February 13,
1945, British and American bombers attacked Dresden, igniting a firestorm
that killed almost all the city's inhabitants in two hours. Vonnegut and his
fellow prisoners only survived because they slept in a meat locker three
stories below the ground. In 1967, he published *Slaughterhouse-Five*(1969).

Also my father was in the Battle of the Bulge.
Best,

Anny

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