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Bluebeard is about an artist named rabo karabekians whose life, like his art, has completely fallen apart. Circumstances of the novel bear rough resemblance to the fairy tale. Jan 01, 2011 kurt vonnegut has surpassed even his own giddy heights of hilariously bitter irony in bluebeard. Bluebeard, kurt vonnegut resource information the item bluebeard, kurt vonnegut represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in indiana state library. Some considered the novel a milestone in vonnegut s career.
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