カート・ヴォネガット

『タイタンの妖女』は、1959年に出版されたカート・ヴォネガットのSF小説。2冊目の小説にあたり、自由意志、全能、人類の歴史全体の目的といった問題についてを扱っている。

Deadeye Dick is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut originally published in 1982.

Jailbird is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in 1979; it has come to be known as "his Watergate novel". The plot involves elements ranging from labor movement of the early 20th century to the Nixon Whitehouse, and revolves around Walter F. Starbuck, a man recently released from a low security prison …

“Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist.”—TimeMother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? …

『猫のゆりかご』は、1963年に出版されたカート・ヴォネガットのSF小説。軍備拡張競争をはじめとする様々な標的を風刺しながら、科学、技術、宗教といった問題を探求する。シカゴ大学は、ヴォネガットの元々の修士論文を却下したが、1971年に『猫のゆりかご』をもってヴォネガットに人類学の修士号を授与している。 …

Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this …

“[Kurt Vonnegut] is either the funniest serious writer around or the most serious funny writer.”—Los Angeles Times Book ReviewIn this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various …