Ricordando l'Apocalisse

e altri scritti nuovi e inediti sulla guerra e sulla pace

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Ricordando l'Apocalisse

e altri scritti nuovi e inediti sulla guerra e sulla pace

  • 3.2 (4 ratings) ·
  • 15 Want to read
  • 8 Have read

Come incubi incancellabili del passato e minacce incombenti sul mondo del futuro, la guerra e i suoi orrori hanno sempre turbato i sonni di Kurt Vonnegut e tornano come tema dominante in questa raccolta di dodici pezzi scelti dal figlio Mark. Il libro si apre con l’ultimo discorso tenuto dall’autore ottantaquattrenne a Indianapolis, la sua città natale. Tra battute e freddure, nella tradizione dei grandi umoristi alla Mark Twain, vengono sfiorati molti argomenti: religione, scienza, selezione naturale, tortura, pena di morte, cambiamento climatico, Marx, comunismo, capitalismo, Cina, USA e razzismo, quasi come se Vonnegut presentisse la fine e volesse lasciarci il suo testamento spirituale. Gli altri undici pezzi vanno dalla “storia vera” del bombardamento di Dresda, dal quale si salvò miracolosamente, al racconto di fantascienza che chiude la raccolta e dà il titolo al libro, Ricordando l’Apocalisse: una trionfale caccia al Maligno che perseguita l’umanità.

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Bompiani
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To be published on the first anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor, the pieces range from a visceral nonfiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden during World War II—an essay that is as timely today as it was then—to a painfully funny short story about three Army privates and their fantasies of the perfect first meal upon returning home from war, to a darker, more poignant story about the impossibility of shielding our children from the temptations of violence. Also included are Vonnegut's last speech as well as an assortment of his artwork, and an introduction by the author's son, Mark Vonnegut. Armageddon in Retrospect says as much about the times in which we live as it does about the genius of the writer.

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