Cat's Cradle

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.

出版者:Penguin

作者:[美] 库尔特·冯内古特

页数:224

出版时间:2011-4-7

价格:GBP 6.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780241951606

丛书系列:Penguin Essentials

图书标签:美国文学科幻KurtVonnegut美国Kurt-Vonnegut黑色幽默小说英语

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...

读后感

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。  

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...  

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...  

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。  

用户评价

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.”

To be honest I didn't get the ending.

The ice-nine is useful, for its useless.

A deadpan face talking ironic absurdity. Poker-faced myself, full of bewilderment...

The ice-nine is useful, for its useless.