Tralfamadore
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| Tralfamadore | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | The Sirens of Titan (1959) |
| Created by | Kurt Vonnegut |
| In-universe information | |
| Type | Planet |
Tralfamadore is the name of several fictional planets in the novels of Kurt Vonnegut.
- In the 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan, Tralfamadore is a planet in the Small Magellanic Cloud and the home of a civilization of machines.[1][2][3]
- In Vonnegut's 1965 novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Tralfamadore appears "as a creation of science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout" presented as "a resolution of human problems".[4] The character Eliot Rosewater pronounces the planet to be located in the "Anti-matter Galaxy 508 G".[5]
- In the 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Tralfamadore is the home to organic beings who can see into all times, and are thus privy to knowledge of future events.[2][6] Protagonist Billy Pilgrim, dealing with the trauma from the bombing of Dresden, relates how he is kidnapped by Tralfamadorians, making it unclear if the planet exists in the novel or just in the characters imagination.[2][additional citation(s) needed] In a similar role to God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Tralfamadore for Pilgrim is a place "where the problematic aspects of his earthly existence are all nicely resolved."[4] Lawrence R. Broer observed that Tralfamadore is an anagram for Fatal Dream.[7]
- In the 1990 book, Hocus Pocus, Tralfamadore appears again in a fiction within the fiction, published in a pornographic magazine. In a parallel to The Sirens of Titan, the Tralfamadorians disrupt the history of humankind again, here because they view bacteria as more valuable. Salman Rushdie observed that this has the effect of making the reader feel "damn small".[8][3]
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References
[edit]- ^ Leeds, Marc (25 October 2016). The Vonnegut Encyclopedia. Random House Publishing. pp. 615–616. ISBN 9780804179928.
- ^ a b c Stableford, Brian (1999). "Tralfamadore". The Dictionary of Science Fiction Places. Wonderland Press. p. 308. ISBN 978-0-684-84958-4.
- ^ a b Clute, John (2023-09-25). "Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ^ a b Klinkowitz, Jerome (2009). "Speaking Personally: Slaughterhouse-Five and the Essays". In Bloom, Harold (ed.). Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. Infobase Publishing. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-60413-585-5.
- ^ Shields, Charles J. (2011). And So It Goes. Henry Holt and Company. p. 298. ISBN 9781429973793.
- ^ Allen, William Rodney (2009). "Slaughterhouse-Five". In Bloom, Harold (ed.). Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. Infobase Publishing. pp. 1, 11. ISBN 978-1-60413-585-5.
- ^ Boer, Lawrence R. (2009). "Slaughterhouse-Five: Pilgrim's Progress". In Bloom, Harold (ed.). Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. Infobase Publishing. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-60413-585-5.
- ^ Rushdie, Salman (2014). "Kurt Vonnegut". Heimatländer der Phantasie [Imaginary homelands] (in German). btb. ISBN 9783641144111.
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