He also explains the inspiration for Campbell's character: He said, "Any time you have an agent inside an enemy country, this is a very sick person you are dealing with." The guy had been a spymaster during the Second World War, and he was complaining about spy films, that they made no sense. I lived there for 20 years, and I met a spymaster. I got the idea at a cocktail party on Cape Cod. Vonnegut told Charlie Rose in 1996 that he was paid $3,000 for it (equivalent to $27,000 in 2021) at a time when he "needed the money", and also explained the idea for the story as follows: The title of the book comes from a line in Goethe's Faust (and ultimately from the Egyptian Goddess Nuit, mother of Osiris, Horus, Isis, Set, and Nephthys, and her counterparts in European religions, such as SkaĆ°i ). Campbell also appears briefly in Vonnegut's later novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The story of the novel is narrated (through the use of metafiction ) by Campbell himself, writing his memoirs while awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison. Campbell Jr., an American, who moved to Germany in 1923 at age 11, and later became a well-known playwright and Nazi propagandist. The novel takes the form of the fictional memoirs of Howard W. Mother Night is a novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut, first published in February 1962.
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