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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頁數:160
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出版時間:15 September, 2005
價格:$23.95
裝幀:Hardcover
isbn號碼: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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具體描述

讀後感

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我觉得要发出自己的声音真的不是一件简单的事情. 尤其是对于社会的一些反面的声音. 有时候不是没有发泄的途径, 而是缺少了这样的勇气和态度. 跟着别人的脚印走似乎最安全. 还是要保持一颗爱骂的心 也许还能给自己的生活带来一点调味剂

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看这本书的时候,不厚道地想到了《寻欢作乐》里面毛姆的话,因为他活得足够老,所以终于登上了当今无人能及的文学宝座。 对于冯内古特来说,正是由于他活得足够久,他的前缀名由科幻小说家变成了黑色幽默小说家,随后是美国著名后现代小说家,然后这本书的后勒口说他是美国现代...  

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勒德主义者(Luddite)又可以翻译成“勒德分子”,近年来成为了一个热门词,指的是仇视一切新奇的发明乃至科技进步的人。在200年前的1811年,工业革命的诞生地英国,失业的纺织工人捣毁了他们视为罪魁祸首的纺织机。他们的领袖据称名叫内德·勒德(Ned Ludd),后来因此而牺牲...  

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我觉得要发出自己的声音真的不是一件简单的事情. 尤其是对于社会的一些反面的声音. 有时候不是没有发泄的途径, 而是缺少了这样的勇气和态度. 跟着别人的脚印走似乎最安全. 还是要保持一颗爱骂的心 也许还能给自己的生活带来一点调味剂

用戶評價

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"No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful."

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intelligent and humorous

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老憤青,贊

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Vonnegut老爺子的最後一部作品。五星緻敬老爺子。82歲時的他依舊保持著辛辣、憤怒,帶者黑色幽默,嬉笑怒罵。這本中一些批判內容也貫穿在前幾本作品裏,所以會略感到有點重復,但同時也讓我感覺到老爺子“隻要我還剩一口氣,我就不會停止罵”的力量和精神以及提醒後生們保持警醒的用心。老爺子的妙語依舊讓我爆笑好多次。笑著笑著,看到後麵又被老爺子的話語觸動到含淚, 又感動,又悲傷。還好,老爺子已辭世,不用看到13年後不但沒長進反而更加一泡汙的世界,以及川普。R.I.P. 【請允許我死後和您一起喝一杯呀

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金句多多的短篇集 不能更喜歡他的witty+sarcastic tone

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