Bagombo Snuff Box
First edition
AuthorKurt Vonnegut
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
PublisherG. P. Putnam's Sons
Publication date
30 August 1999 (1999-08-30)
Media typePrint
Pages295
ISBN0-399-14505-2
OCLC40683538
813/.54 21
LC ClassPS3572.O5 B34 1999

Bagombo Snuff Box is a collection of 23 short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut. The stories were originally published in US periodicals between 1950 and 1963, and consisted of virtually all of Vonnegut's previously published short fiction of the 1950s and 60s that had not been collected in 1968's Welcome to the Monkey House. This collection was published in 1999 by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Vonnegut revised three stories for publication in this collection: "The Powder-Blue Dragon" (1954), "The Boy Who Hated Girls" (1956), and "Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp" (1957).[1] The unrevised version of "Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp" was anthologized in Canary in a Cat House (1961). The final work in the collection, "Coda to My Career as a Writer for Periodicals", is an essay in which Vonnegut reflects on the writing of the stories in this collection, and the person he was at the time.

The title story, "Bagombo Snuff Box", was adapted into a short film by Igor Stanojević. The film, called Čovek iz Bagomba or The Man from Bagombo, stars Dragan Jovanović and Gala Videnović; it premiered in 2010.[2]

Stories

№ Title Date first published First published in Refs
1 "Thanasphere" 2 September 1950 Collier's [3][4][5]
2 "Mnemonics" 28 April 1951 Collier's [4][5][6]
3 "Any Reasonable Offer" 19 January 1952 Collier's [4][5][7]
4 "The Package" 26 July 1952 Collier's [4][5][8]
5 "The No-Talent Kid" 25 October 1952 The Saturday Evening Post [4][5][9]
6 "Poor Little Rich Town" 25 October 1952 Collier's [4][5][10]
7 "Souvenir" December 1952 Argosy [4][11]
8 "The Cruise of the Jolly Roger" April 1953 Cape Cod Compass [4][12]
9 "Custom-made Bride" 27 March 1954 The Saturday Evening Post [4][5]
10 "Ambitious Sophomore" 1 May 1954 The Saturday Evening Post [4][5]
11 "Bagombo Snuff Box" October 1954 Cosmopolitan [4][5][13]
12 "The Powder-Blue Dragon" November 1954 Cosmopolitan [4][5]
13 "A Present for Big Saint Nick" December 1954 Argosy [4]
14 "Unpaid Consultant" March 1955 Cosmopolitan [4][5][14]
15 "Der Arme Dolmetscher" July 1955 The Atlantic Monthly [4][15]
16 "The Boy Who Hated Girls" 31 March 1956 The Saturday Evening Post [4][5][16]
17 "This Son of Mine" 13 August 1956 The Saturday Evening Post [4]
18 "A Night for Love" 23 November 1957 The Saturday Evening Post [4][5]
19 "Find Me a Dream" February 1961 Cosmopolitan [4][5][17]
20 "Runaways" 15 April 1961 The Saturday Evening Post [4][5][18]
21 "2 B R 0 2 B" January 1962 Worlds of If [4][5]
22 "Lovers Anonymous" October 1963 Redbook [4][5][19]
23 "Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp" June 1957 Cosmopolitan [4][20]

Notes

  1. ^ Vonnegut, Kurt (1999). "Coda to My Career as a Writer for Periodicals". Bagombo snuff box: uncollected short fiction. G.P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 978-0-399-14505-6.
  2. ^ Stanojević, Igor (27 March 2017) [2010]. The Man from Bagombo (Čovek iz Bagomba) (2010) (video) (in Serbian). Non Sequitur Productions. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  3. ^ Farrell (2008), p. 371
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Klinkowitz, Jerome (2010) [2004]. "Bibliography § Bagombo Snuff Box". The Vonnegut Effect. University of South Carolina Press. pp. 216–17. ISBN 978-1-61117-114-3. OCLC 794415456.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Kurtzrock, Glenn; Cooley, George A. (30 June 1996). "alt.books.kurt-vonnegut FAQ v2.21 § What about Kurt Vonnegut's uncollected short stories?". FAQs.org. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  6. ^ Farrell (2008), p. 245
  7. ^ Farrell (2008), p. 23
  8. ^ Farrell (2008), p. 271
  9. ^ Farrell (2008), p. 269
  10. ^ Farrell (2008), p. 301
  11. ^ Farrell (2008), p. 368
  12. ^ Farrell (2008), p. 101
  13. ^ Farrell (2008), p. 24
  14. ^ Farrell (2008), p. 400
  15. ^ Farrell (2008), p. 122
  16. ^ Farrell (2008), p. 55
  17. ^ Farrell (2008), p. 136
  18. ^ Farrell (2008), p. 310
  19. ^ Farrell (2008), p. 236
  20. ^ Farrell (2008), p. 177

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