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Kurt Vonnegut's Bluebeard was written in 1988 and describes the late years of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian, who first appeared, rather briefly, in Breakfast of Champions. He has a secret tucked away in the potato barn on his Long Island estate. It takes the arrival of a young woman, Circe Berman, author of the Polly Madison books for tenagers, to make Karabekian reveal his life story, from his exodus from Armenia to California, to his place to in the art world and his final retirement.
One of Vonnegut's later novels, the final revelation of Karabekian's secret is one of the most moving moments in all of Vonnegut's work.
Circumstances of the novel bear rough resemblance to the fairy tale story of Bluebeard popularized by the Brothers Grimm. The relationship is mentioned explicitly several times in the novel by the main character.
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