Talk:Mother Night

Use of Metafiction/literary device section
I'd like to preface this by saying I'm just an undergraduate student and not a literary scholar, but I'm in the process of writing an undergraduate thesis on Mother Night and am extremely knowledgeable about the work and about Vonnegut in general.

I can't say I'm a fan of this section, so I've done a little editing. First of all, the section is practically unintelligible, particularly the last paragraph. Secondly, I think it's misleading--while the novel does use metafiction techniques, they function in a different way than most metafiction. Instead of drawing attention to the artifice of the novel, Vonnegut is trying to pass the text off as a historical document. His use of meta-fiction in fact enhances his stance as "editor" of the text rather than as the author. Before I started editing this wasn't exactly clear.

I'd love to hear thoughts before making a major overhaul, though, as I'm brand new to wikipedia and in fact just signed up for an account for this page. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SkyelinePigeon (talk • contribs) 00:43, 13 February 2011 (UTC) Hello to Unsigned contributor- who added previous comments. Just a reminder of wikipedia rules. Please see the help pages.There's plenty of rules for wikipedia, and if you don't follow them, your edits will be undone. Remember to seek verified facts, avoid original research (your own opinion is not for articles) and NPOV. You can find articles, sources and references that agree with your opinion(s), and use those. Good luck, and best wishes.Ern Malleyscrub (talk) 11:09, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

209.212.28.62|209.212.28.62]] (talk) 18:06, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

another thought on the "Literary devices" section: Derrida's deconstruction was not well-known in English-speaking circles until the late 1960s at the earliest; his book On Grammatology was published in 1967 and translated into English in 1976. How can a French philosopher's examination of early 1900's structural linguistics (a school of thought which was outdated by the 1950s) have had any bearing on a book written by an American author in 1961?205.118.120.153 (talk) 14:17, 11 March 2019 (UTC)