![]() ![]() ![]() One afternoon, Circe Berman, a woman living nearby, wanders onto Karabekian's private beach. He shares the lonely home with his live-in cook and her daughter, Celeste. ![]() Karabekian mentions this relationship once in the novel.Īt the opening of the book, the narrator, Rabo Karabekian, apologizes to the arriving guests: "I promised you an autobiography, but something went wrong in the kitchen." He describes himself as a museum guard who answers questions from visitors coming to see his priceless collected art. Circumstances of the novel bear rough resemblance to the fairy tale of Bluebeard popularized by Charles Perrault. It is told as a first-person narrative and describes the late years of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian, who first appeared as a minor character in Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions (1973). Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916–1988) is a 1987 novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut. ![]()
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