Vonnegut’s Bluebeard

I just finished the wasak book “Gerilya” by Norman Wilwayco after setting aside The National Kurt Vonnagut Bluebeard (as the old book’s cover would show) for a day to savor the fast-paced near to my heart story of a petty bourgeois trying hard to be an intellectual in the arena of armed struggle and revolution in the Philippines.

Anyway, I got interested with Kurt Vonnegut after scanning one of his book “Breakfast of Champions” and enjoyed the way his words weave with his ideas that captures the craziness of his moment and society.  His tone encapsulates the off-beat ramblings of viewing and interpreting the ways the individual interacts with society and its dynamic interaction creating new thoughts and paradigms to be tested through time.

Anyway, “Bluebeard” represent another of Kurt Vonnegut’s take on the chaos that shapes our world. Its main character,  Rabo Karabekian, the 71 year old painter who just wants to enjoy what the world still has  in store for him, was bullied by a young widow to write his autobiography that brought him back to places and events he has been while grappling with the complexities, imagined or real, caused by the present set-up he is in with the bullying widow, who turned out to be a celebrated author.

I am not finished with the book but it intrigued me to check on abstract expressionism and if there is a painting material called sateen dura-luxe which I am not even sure if it is even real.

(Jackson Pollack’s abstract expressionism)

I still plan to sell the book after reading it but with its continuing deterioration brought by natural and not-so natural causes,  my plan might all come to naught.