Although it is set in the near future, HOCUS POCUS is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date and shows the struggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and more than impatient with his own country. »

Jay McInerney, New York Times Book Review

“Contemporaty American fiction boasts two pre-eminent synthesizing geniuses: Thomas Pynchon and Kurt Vonnegut. Either can take seemingly unrelated scintillas of past and present existence, capture them in a fictionnal cloud chamber and then describe their pertinent points of intersection so that the reader believes that all these colliding particles are part of one vast, cosmic whole.

“Certainly this phenomenon comes clearly visible in Vonnegut's new novel, HOCUS POCUS, which seems to me as fine as any work this master synthesist and satirist has done”

The Kansas City Star