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.
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...
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 评分 评分《猫的摇篮》 有新意思和幽默 一个个短章节组成,形式不是什么大创新,老实说。 不过他用一种奇怪语言定义,描绘和讽刺了世界:) 从这个角度看,发明自己的体系定义和阐述世界,还不错。 有一次发明家打赌我说不出任何称得上绝对整理的东西。于是我对他说,“上帝是爱” 他...
评分这书有两个译本 一个是江西人民出版社的老版,还有一个译林的新版 网上也有在线阅读``基本和正版书靠不上谱 故事本身是很有意思的。 两种版本对照来看,则会觉得两者都有很大问题。
Bought in London, finished in London.
评分No damn cat. No damn cradle. 冯的语言很简练,嘲讽技能和冷幽默臻于化境。
评分To be honest I didn't get the ending.
评分◎冯古内特极其善于用幽默消解、讽刺愚蠢的事,这种幽默是极其聪明的,相比于我这种不入流的写作者,他不会用明晃晃的观点刺伤你,他仿佛随意笑着扔了几颗豆子,然后豆子落地拔起入云的藤蔓,枝叉上穿满了愚蠢的心。
评分◎冯古内特极其善于用幽默消解、讽刺愚蠢的事,这种幽默是极其聪明的,相比于我这种不入流的写作者,他不会用明晃晃的观点刺伤你,他仿佛随意笑着扔了几颗豆子,然后豆子落地拔起入云的藤蔓,枝叉上穿满了愚蠢的心。
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