Cat's cradle
av Kurt Vonnegut (forfatter).
Penguin 2017 Heftet
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Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle is an irreverent and highly entertaining fantasy about the playful irresponsibility of nuclear scientists, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'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 . . .'The time to read Vonnegut is just when you begin to suspect that the world is not what it appears to be. He is not only entertaining, he is electrocuting. You read him with enormous pleasure because he makes your hair stand on end' New York Times'One of the warmest, wisest, funniest voices to be found anywhere in fiction' Daily Telegraph'Vonnegut has looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched' J. G. BallardKurt 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
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Forlag Penguin
Utgivelsesår 2017
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9780241951606
EAN 9780241951606
Serie Penguin essentials
Genre Science fiction Klassisk litteratur
Språk Engelsk
Sider 224
Utgave 1
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ingar h siterer Cat's cradle av Kurt Vonnegut (side 202)
19:44, 24. januar 2016 Ingen har det som favoritt.
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before" Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
Anna Penkova siterer Cat's cradle av Kurt Vonnegut
02:22, 10. februar 2012 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.
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01:34, 17. mars 2012 Ingen har det som favoritt.
The hopes and fears of all the years are here with us tonight
Anders Kristiansen siterer Cat's cradle av Kurt Vonnegut
20:10, 21. april 2014 Ingen har det som favoritt.
The first sentence in The Books of Bokonon is this:
'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies'.
My Bokononist warning is this:
Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
So be it.
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"Svart humor, også kalt morbid humor og annet, er en spesiell grotesk, pessimistisk eller svartsynt form for humor og satire der emnet er alvorlig og gjerne kan gjøre folk opprørte, slik som død, krig, narkotika og lignende. Provokasjoner og lek med tabuer er ofte en viktig del av den svarte humoren, som kan betraktes som en måte å vekke dem som ser og hører, og dermed et virkemiddel for å endre holdningene i samfunnet. Svart humor er ofte preget av ironi, men også det tragikomiske."
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