Aut bene aut nihil

[arpad]

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About Vonnegut - well - nothing.

About his books - I don't like them. They are not about humanity or honesty. They are about cowardice. Intellectual cowardice of their author.

In my not at all humble opinion.

Comments

[brucenstein.livejournal.com]

Eh, I respect your right to have an opinion, even though it's wrong. :)

How is cowardice not about humanity?!

[arpad.livejournal.com]

How is cowardice not about humanity?!

Heh.

[justbeast.livejournal.com]

Why cowardice?

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Afraid of science. Afraid of power. Even afraid of despair - there are nothing close in KV to "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter Miller or to Beckett... KV can't accept things and can't reject them. He is stuck with them.

[elikrav.livejournal.com]

Надо же!
Новое слово выучил!

Трусость, говоришь?
Надо почитать. Для общего, таскызыть, образования.

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Колыбель для кошки

Странно что ты не читал. Для "общего профессионального" - таки надо.

Или прикидываешься?

[iz-kustov-ved.livejournal.com]

Is it nothing?

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Nothing personal :)

If seriously - as close to nothing as I can do.

[adav41.livejournal.com]

Это у Воннегута есть понятие "каррас" (кажется так), в смысле люди связаные, некоторым пересечением своих судеб и влиянием друг на друга?

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Ага.

[elbom.livejournal.com]

Vonnegut can be very profound -- when you're 14. But then you grow up and realize that poplar literature, if it wishes to remain popular, must avoid honesty, humanity, and bravery. Gilbert Sorrentino's Red the Fiend, for example, has more courage, horror, humor, sadness, maturity and humanity than the complete works of Kurt Vonnegut. Sorrentino died last year -- but who cares? He's hard to read, so why bother.