For its twentieth anniversary edition, Vonnegut wrote a Foreword in The Fan Man, originally published in 1974 and written by William Kotzwinkle with drawings by Keith Bendis. The Foreword is dated January 1994.
Summary[]
Calling the work "music to be played in the head" that prior to its publication in 1974 had never before been heard, Vonnegut notes that "only the quickest, least inhibited sight-readers" are skilled enough performers to play it properly. Those who require writers that are solid and sane citizens who tell readers how they should feel about the characters are at a particular disadvantage. The main character, Horse Badorties, who is "fog bound by drugs and absolutely terminal incompetence and loneliness", is the only judge of what occurs in the book. Like an egg, everything necessary for it is contained inside its shell.[1]
- ↑ "Foreword", The Fan Man (1994).