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Abstract. The author reveals Kurt Vonnegut’s views on the functions that a writer should perform in modern society, and, analyzing Vonnegut’s social and political essays, dwells on his theory that every creator is endowed with a special flair that allows him feeling the approach of a disaster earlier than other people can do it and warning them of danger. Society itself but not the state puts such a function on a writer. The attempt to derogate a writer’s right to be heard by audience is equivalent to the desire to hide the truth about the real state of affairs in the state.
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Key words and phrases: Курт Воннегут, публицистика, писательство, цензура, свобода слова, комиссия по порнографии, Американская библиотечная ассоциация, Kurt Vonnegut, social and political essays, writing, censorship, freedom of speech, Commission on Pornography, American Library Association
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