Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage

Kurt Vonnegut

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0425134067 ISBN 13 : 9780425134061

Editeur : Berkley, 1992

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Revue de presse :

"An American cultural hero celebrated for his wry, loonily imaginative commentary on war, apocalypse, technology, materialism and other afflictions... One of the last of a generation of great American novelists of World War II" (Los Angeles Times)

"Like listening to the monologue of an interesting man whose tongue has been loosened by just one glass of wine" (Guardian)

"Fates Worse Than Death is honest and scarily funny, and it offers a rare insight into an author who has customarily hidden his heart" (New York Times)

"A truly great work of moral philosophy" (The Age)

"Fates Worse Than Death is the latest volume of his cunning, rambling, edgy sermonettes, his wry, moral bomblets chucked night after night from podium and pulpit into gatherings of shrinks and museologists, Anglicans, architects, MIT graduands and the like. Rumours that the old boy was losing his knack of drilling straight into the nerve of western complacency can, on the evidence of this marvellously tetchy wit, be discounted." (Observer)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

“Honest and scarily funny, and it offers a rare insight into an author who has customarily hidden his heart.”—New York Times

“An anthology in which Vonnegut freely quotes himself on everything from art and architecture to madness and mass murder...Uncompromising.”—Los Angeles Times

Here we have a collection of essays and speeches by me, with breezy autobiographical commentary serving as connective tissue and splints and bandages. Here we go again with real life and opinions made to look like one big, preposterous animal not unlike an invention by Dr. Seuss...

—Kurt Vonnegut, from Fates Worse Than Death