Who Am I This Time?

For the 1982 film adaptation, see Who Am I This Time? (film).

"Who Am I This Time?"
Author	Kurt Vonnegut
Country	USA
Language	English
Published in	The Saturday Evening Post (1st edition) Welcome to the Monkey House
Publication type	Magazine (1st edition)
Media type	Print
Publication date	1961

"Who Am I This Time?" is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut, published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1961. The story was collected in Vonnegut's famous anthology Welcome to the Monkey House.

Synopsis

The story centers on a character named Harry Nash, who is an extremely shy and characterless small-town man. However, whenever he takes a part in the local, amateur theater production he becomes the character to an overwhelming extent. Soon Helene Shaw, a recent addition to the town, falls in love—not with Nash, but with his character in the play.

Adaptations

The short story was made in a short television movie in 1982 starring Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon and directed by Jonathan Demme.
In 2008 it was adapted into a radio play for BBC Radio 4 starring Lou Hirsch, Kerry Shale, Joanne Froggatt and Maureen Lipman.

Kurt Vonnegut

Bibliography

Novels	Player Piano (1952) The Sirens of Titan (1959) Mother Night (1961) Cat's Cradle (1963) God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Breakfast of Champions (1973) Slapstick (1976) Jailbird (1979) Deadeye Dick (1982) Galápagos (1985) Bluebeard (1987) Hocus Pocus (1990) Timequake (1997)

Story collections	Canary in a Cat House (1961) Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999) Armageddon in Retrospect (2008) Look at the Birdie (2009) While Mortals Sleep (2011) Sucker's Portfolio (2013)

Collected essays	Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) Palm Sunday (1981) Fates Worse Than Death (1991) A Man Without a Country (2005) Armageddon in Retrospect (2008) If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young (2013)

Scripts	Fortitude (1968) Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970) Between Time and Timbuktu (1972) Miss Temptation (1993)

Adaptations	Displaced Person (1958 / 1985) Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971) Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) Between Time and Timbuktu (1972) Next Door (1975) Slapstick of Another Kind (1982) Who Am I This Time? (1982) Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House (1991) Harrison Bergeron (1995) Mother Night (1996) Breakfast of Champions (1999) 2081 (2009)

Characters and concepts	Kilgore Trout Billy Pilgrim Eliot Rosewater Eugene Debs Hartke Rabo Karabekian RAMJAC Ilium Bokononism Granfalloon Ice-nine

Related	Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library

Family	Jill Krementz (second wife) Mark Vonnegut (son) Edith Vonnegut (daughter) Kurt Vonnegut, Sr. (father) Bernard Vonnegut (brother) Bernard Vonnegut, Sr. (grandfather)

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