A Man Without a Country

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Kurt Vonnegut is among the very few grandmasters of contemporary American letters, without whom the very term "American literature" would mean less than it does. His novels include Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five, among so many others. Projects with Seven Stories Press in recent years include God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian and, with Lee Stringer, Like Shaking Hands with God, a book about writing. His most recent novel is Timequake (1997). In addition to his writing, Vonnegut is a visual artist of note. His paintings and prints can be seen at www.vonnegut.com. He lives with his wife, photographer Jill Krementz, in New York City.

出版者:Seven Stories Press
作者:Kurt Vonnegut
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页数:160
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出版时间:15 September, 2005
价格:$23.95
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9781583227138
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A Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut's hilarious and razor-sharp look at life ("If I die-God forbid-I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, 'Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?'"), art ("To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."), politics ("I asked former Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton what he thought of our great victory over Iraq and he said, 'Mohammed Ali versus Mr. Rogers.'"), and the condition of the soul of America today ("What has happened to us?"). Gleaned from short essays and speeches composed over the last five years and plentifully illustrated with artwork by the author throughout, A Man Without a Country gives us Vonnegut both speaking out with indignation and writing tenderly to his fellow Americans, sometimes joking, at other times hopeless, always searching.

From Publishers Weekly

In his first book since 1999, it's just like old times as Vonnegut (now 82) makes with the deeply black humor in this collection of articles written over the last five years, many from the alternative magazine In These Times. But the pessimistic wisecracks may be wearing thin; the conversational tone of the pieces is like Garrison Keillor with a savage undercurrent. Still, the schtick works fine most of the time, underscored by hand-lettered aphorisms between chapters. Some essays suffer from authorial self-indulgence, however, like taking a dull story about mailing a manuscript and stretching it to interminable lengths. Vonnegut reserves special bile for the "psychopathic personalities" (i.e., "smart, personable people who have no consciences") in the Bush administration, which he accuses of invading Iraq so America can score more of the oil to which we have become addicted. People, he says, are just "chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power." Of course, that's exactly the sort of misanthropy hardcore Vonnegut fans will lap up—the online versions of these pieces are already described as the most popular Web pages in the history of In These Times. (Sept.)

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冯内古特老先生,已经仙逝了。 这个老嬉皮写《五号屠宰场》那会儿,中国的“顽主”们还穿开档裤哩。几十年过来了,老家伙的火气一点没见少,新书《没有国家的人》里头,把美国骂了个遍。他骂布什政府“有最令人恐怖的精神变态人格”;他骂比尔•盖茨,认为应该是他的“生命...  

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2005年的作品,其时作者都83了。美国人的大脑有效期真长,我们这儿别说83了,38就不行了。基本上是他最近这些年发表过的一些文章的结集,内容是一些回忆、议论和幽默小品,也有几篇谈了谈卡夫卡和莎士比亚。至于核心内容,就一个:骂美国。对冯尼古特略有了解的人都知道...  

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库尔特.冯内古特是个八十四岁的老头子,应该也是美国称为“垮掉的一代”(指五十年代)的年轻人,比他大三岁的塞林格就比较符合垮掉的特点,不然《麦田守望者》里的霍尔顿不会如此惶惶不可终日地暴走。 冯内古特本来已经封笔了,在1997他写完最后的一本长篇小说《时震》后,结...  

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intelligent and humorous

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“If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. ” hhhh很colloquial阿(写的简短好读,但是我到底什么时候可以告别comedian们出的书阿捶胸

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Extremely banal.

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Very easy to read and yet one of the funniest sarcastic tribute to the 20th century America

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Very easy to read and yet one of the funniest sarcastic tribute to the 20th century America

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