num_pages: 300
description: Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916-88) is a 1987 novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. It's told as a first person narrative &amp; describes the late years of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian, who first appeared, rather briefly, in Breakfast of Champions. Circumstances of the novel bear rough resemblance to the fairy tale of Bluebeard popularized by Charles Perrault. Karabekian mentions this relationship once in the novel.
language: English
title: Bluebeard
titlecomplete: Bluebeard
characters: Rabo Karabekian
genres: Fiction, Humor, Classics, Contemporary, Science Fiction, American, Literary Fiction, Art, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 39948
places: East Hampton, New York
publisher: Delacorte