All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies'. Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of Ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Will Felix Hoenikker's death wish come true? Will his last, fatal gift to humankind bring about the end that, for all of us, is nigh? Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global apocalypse preys on our deepest fears of witnessing the end and, worse still, surviving it...
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922. He studied at the universities of Chicago and Tennessee and later began to write short stories for magazines. His first novel, Player Piano, was published in 1951 and was followed by The Sirens of Titan (1959), Mother Night (1961), Cat's Cradle (1963), God Bless You Mr Rosewater (1964), Welcome to the Monkey House (1968); a collection of short stories, Slaughterhouse Five (1969), Breakfast of Champions (1973), Slapstick, or Lonesome No More (1976), Jailbird (1979), Deadeye Dick (1982), Galapagos (1985), Bluebeard (1988), Hocus Pocus (1990) and Timequake (1997). He is also the author of a number of collections of short stories and essays. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.
好像最近时常看到冯内古特的名字,于是找到了我能找到的唯一一本中文译本《猫的摇篮》。看的时候总是不禁赞叹这是本奇怪的书,犹如做梦般,思绪还来不及想接下来的事,各种巧合般令人惊讶的故事便顺应而来,通篇流畅又离奇。每个片段都是故事中必要的存在,可是抽离出来又能自...
评分我是一个很喜欢看小说的人,我也是一个很怕看到不好看小说的人。对我而言,小说只有两种,好看的和不好看的。 不好看的小说不一定写得很糟糕,但是好看的小说却有一个共通点:流畅。库特·冯尼古特的这本《猫的摇篮》,就是一本让人不忍释手的小说。 之前因为朋友的介绍,读过...
评分摘自《新商报》 作者:玄 木 几周前,美国后现代文学大师库尔特•冯内古特不慎从家中楼梯上摔了下来,脑部受伤,留下严重的后遗症,4月11日终告不治,在曼哈顿离世,享年84岁。这位以“黑色幽默”笔法而赢得世界广泛赞誉的小说家一生都在用词语画漫画。他的《五号屠场》、...
评分用这样的文字写成的一部著作,翻译时想刻意省略些什么也难。因为它针对的不只是意识形态的对错,更是在探讨科学的利弊,它涉及的完全不是政治制度的孰优孰劣,而是人的社会性的虚伪本性。 想要知道自己每天接触的人事物究竟有着怎样的本质,看这书吧。
评分刚看完这本来之不易的《猫的摇篮》,抒发一下我对于冯内古特的热爱。这个老家伙曾经带给我无数的欢乐,我真心的希望他现在还活在这个世界上,继续写出一个个荒诞而又真实的故事,就像我希望伯格曼也同样活着,同时内心窃喜伍迪•艾伦同志仍然健在。 据星相学说,8月6日出生...
Cat’s Cradle有趣的dystopian小说 科学宗教 殖民主义 性别问题等等 把各种严肃的议题和隐喻写得无比辛辣尖刻 而且非常幽默诙谐 是可怜可悲又可笑的幽默 夹杂着心酸和悲悯 像vonnegut自己说的 绝望发出的笑 “A fish pitched up, By the angry sea, I grasped on land, And I became me.” “Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”
评分"What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" "Nothing." Any advice then? Just "grin horribly."
评分A history of human stupidity.
评分世界是荒谬的、人类是愚蠢的,可是明白了又怎样呢?世界仍然荒谬、人类永远愚蠢。
评分冯怼怼这部作品写于1963年,跟1959年的Sirens of Titan比起来少了些科幻意味,不变的是那股辛辣讽刺的愤世嫉俗的劲头。Hoenikker及其古怪的三子女明显是以爱因斯坦一家为原型,更别提冯怼怼还编造出了个ice-nine让爱因斯坦变为世界毁灭者,老科学家若能活着看到这书怕不是得气死。。。没买到sf masterworks的版本还是挺遗憾的,那个版本比这个版本的封面要好看的多。
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