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“A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”-New York Times

“[Vonnegut is] an unimitative and inimitable social satirist.”-Harper’s Magazine

“Our finest black-humorist . . . We laugh in self-defense.”-Atlantic Monthly

The Day the World Ended 1 (1)
Nice, Nice, Very Nice 2 (2)
Folly 4 (1)
A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils 5 (3)
Letter from a Pre-Med 8 (5)
Bug Fights 13 (5)
The Illustrious Hoenikkers 18 (1)
Newt's Thing with Zinka 19 (1)
Vice-President in Charge of Volcanoes 20 (1)
Secret Agent X-9 21 (3)
Protein 24 (1)
End of the World Delight 25 (2)
The Jumping-off Place 27 (3)
When Automobiles Had Cut-Glass Vases 30 (2)
Merry Christmas 32 (3)
Back to Kindergarten 35 (2)
The Girl Pool 37 (2)
The Most Valuable Commodity on Earth 39 (3)
No More Mud 42 (2)
Ice-Nine 44 (3)
The Marines March on 47 (1)
Member of the Yellow Press 48 (2)
The Last Batch of Brownies 50 (2)
What a Wampeter is 52 (1)
The Main Thing About Dr. Hoenikker 53 (1)
What Gog is 54 (1)
Men from Mars 55 (3)
Mayonnaise 58 (2)
Gone, but not Forgotten 60 (1)
Only Sleeping 61 (2)
Another Breed 63 (1)
Dynamite Money 64 (2)
An Ungrateful Man 66 (3)
Vin-Dit 69 (4)
Hobby Shop 73 (4)
Meow 77 (2)
A Modern Major General 79 (2)
Barracuda Capital of the World 81 (1)
Fata Morgana 82 (2)
House of Hope and Mercy 84 (2)
A Karass Built for two 86 (2)
Bicycles for Afghanistan 88 (4)
The Demonstrator 92 (4)
Communist Sympthizers 96 (2)
Why Americans are Hated 98 (1)
The Bokononist Method for Handling Caesar 99 (2)
Dynamic Tension 101(2)
Just Like Saint Augustine 103(1)
A Fish Pitched up by an Angry Sea 104(5)
A Nice Midget 109(1)
O.K., Mom 110(4)
No Pain 114(2)
The President of Fabri-Tek 116(2)
Communists, Nazis, Royalists, Parachutists, 118(1)
and Draft Dodgers
Never Index Your own Book 119(4)
A Self-Supporting Squirrel Cage 123(2)
The Queasy Dream 125(2)
Tyranny with a Difference 127(2)
Fasten your Seat Belts 129(3)
An Underprivileged Nation 132(2)
What a Corporal Was Worth 134(2)
Why Hazel Wasn't Scared 136(1)
Reverent and Free 137(2)
Peace and Plenty 139(2)
A Good Time to Come to San Lorenzo 141(3)
The Strongest Thing There is 144(3)
Hy-U-O-Ook-Kuhi 147(2)
Hoon-Yera Mora-Toorz 149(1)
A big Mosaic 150(3)
Tutored by Bokonon 153(1)
The Happiness of Being an American 154(2)
The Pissant Hilton 156(3)
Black Death 159(4)
Cat's Cradle 163(3)
Give my Regards to Albert Scweitzer 166(2)
Julian Castle Agrees with Newt that 168(2)
Everything is Meaningless
Aspirin and Boko-Maru 170(2)
Ring of Steel 172(2)
Why McCabe's Soul Grew Coarse 174(2)
The Waterfall Strainers 176(4)
A white Bride for the Son of a Pullman Porter 180(3)
Zah-Mah-Ki-Bo 183(2)
Dr. Schlichter Von Koenigswald Approaches the 185(2)
Break-Even Point
Blackout 187(2)
A Pack of Foma 189(2)
Two Little Jugs 191(3)
The Cut of my Jib 194(3)
Why Frank Couldn't be President 197(2)
Duffle 199(2)
Only one Catch 201(2)
Mona 203(2)
On the Poet's Celebration of his First 205(1)
Boko-Maru
How I Almost Lost my Mona 206(4)
The Highest Mountain 210(2)
I See the Hook 212(1)
Bell, Book, and Chicken in a Hatbox 213(3)
The Stinking Christian 216(3)
Last Rites 219(1)
Dyot Meet Mat 220(3)
Down the Oubliette Goes Frank 223(2)
Like my Predecessors, I Outlaw Bokonon 225(2)
Enemies of Freedom 227(3)
A Medical Opinion on the Effects of a 230(2)
Writers' Strike
Sulfathiazole 232(3)
Pain-Killer 235(2)
What Bokononists Say when they Commit Suicide 237(2)
Feast your Eyes! 239(1)
Frank Tells us what to do 240(2)
Frank Defends Himself 242(2)
The Fourteenth Book 244(1)
Time out 245(3)
Newt's Mother's Reticule 248(2)
History 250(2)
When I Felt the Bullet Enter my Heart 252(5)
As it Happened 257(2)
The Grand Ah-Whoom 259(2)
Sanctuary 261(2)
The Iron Maiden and the Oubliette 263(4)
Mona Thanks me 267(3)
To whom it may Concern 270(3)
I am Slow to Answer 273(2)
The Swiss Family Robinson 275(1)
Of Mice and Men 276(3)
Frank's Ant Farm 279(3)
The Tasmanians 282(2)
Soft Pipes, Play on 284(2)
The end 286

기형적으로 발달해버린 과학기술의 폐해로 위태로워진 문명을 다룬 소설. 원자폭탄보다 더 큰 위력으로 인류를 절멸시킬 '아이스-9'이란 무시무시한 무기를 실뜨기놀이하듯 만들어내는 인류와 그 미래를 절망적으로 그려낸 작품이다. 저자는 우매한 인간들이 반성하고 개선하지 않으면 인류는 필연적으로 멸망하고야 말 것이라는 메시지를 전한다. 또한 날카로운 풍자와 어둡고 음습한 유머를 통해, 현실에 적당히 중독되어 스스로의 존재도 깨닫지 못하는 인간의 모습을 적나라하게 벗겨 보여주고 있다.

Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works-and Vonnegut at his very best.