real people

[David Andignac]

>someone said:
>
>> 
>> TERRY CAESAR writes:
>> 
>> > Help! Anybody recall the name of that novel of a few years ago in which
>> > Normal Mailer is murdered? Mailer sued, I believe. The Mailer who actually
>> > lives, I mean, outside this novel or any other.
>> 
>> *Normal* Mailer! I hope that's a typo...
>> 
>
>teehee, y'all are a riot.  i'm glad i found you.
>
>> 
>> > What to make, I wondered, of so many recent works of fiction where
>> > real people appear. Not as characters. 
>
>isn't it in _breakfast of champions_ that vonnegut pulls up in a datsun 
>and pulls kilgore trout aside to discuss his life or something or 
>other?  it's all a blur.
>
>
>--
>brad daly              	                       bwdaly at panther.bsc.edu
>"People sometimes say that the way things happen in the 
>movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen 
>to you in life that's unreal."  --Andy Warhol
>

Vonnegut appears as a character in several of his novels. I believe the 
first he appeared in was "Slaughterhouse Five" in which Billy Pilgrim was in 
the same German prison camp as Vonnegut in Dresden.

He was a fairly central character in "Breakfast of Champions", a novel which 
Vonnegut referred to as sorting out the garbage of his career. He was 
putting several characters including Kilgore Trout to literary rest and he 
did appear to Kilgore as his creator I believe. 

Just some info,

David A.