Книга для чтения на английском языке.

Книга для чтения на английском языке.

Read Kurt Vonneguts powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published. An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist New York Times Book Review Billy Pilgrim - hapless barbers assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War. But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out? Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself. This is a book about war. Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency. The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves. George Saunders

Read Kurt Vonneguts powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published. An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist New York Times Book Review Billy Pilgrim - hapless barbers assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War. But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out? Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself. This is a book about war. Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency. The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves. George Saunders

Бойня номер пять. Книга для чтения на английском языке. Предлагаем вниманию читателей роман знаменитого американского писателя Курта Воннегута, в основе которого - впечатления автора от событий февраля 1945 г., когда союзническая авиация бомбила Дрезден. Книга снабжена заданиями на понимание текста, комментариями и словарем. Для учащихся языковых вузов и всех любителей англоязычной литературы.

Бойня номер пять. Книга для чтения на английском языке. Предлагаем вниманию читателей роман знаменитого американского писателя Курта Воннегута, в основе которого - впечатления автора от событий февраля 1945 г., когда союзническая авиация бомбила Дрезден. Книга снабжена заданиями на понимание текста, комментариями и словарем. Для учащихся языковых вузов и всех любителей англоязычной литературы.

From the author of Slaughterhouse 5. In Rabo Karabekian’s fictional autobiography, Vonnegut creates an impeccably funny satirical piece, through the reflections of a seventy-one-year-old man.

Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published. Billy Pilgrim – hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier – has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War. But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out? Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself. This is a book about war. Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency. ‘The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.’ George Saunders

As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come. When he did write about it, he combined his trademark humour, unfettered imagination, boundless humanity and keen sense of irony to create one of the most powerful anti-war books every written, and an enduring American classic. This special edition is published with notes of appreciation from some of the book's ardent fans (Kate Atkinson, Richard Herring, Robin Ince) as well as fascinating extra material from Vonnegut's archive which casts light on the genesis, reception and enduring influence of an iconic American classic.

Предлагаем вниманию читателей роман знаменитого американского писателя К.Воннегута, в основе которого - впечатления автора от событий февраля 1945 г., когда союзническая авиация бомбила Дрезден. Книга снабжена заданиями на понимание текста, комментариями и словарем. Для учащихся языковых вузов и всех любителей англоязычной литературы. Подготовка текста, комментарии и словарь Ю.В.Гадаевой.

Курт Воннегут: Американский писатель-фантаст. В конце Второй мировой войны был ранен, попал в плен, и в лагере для военнопленных под Дрезденом стал свидетелем варварской бомбардировки города. Это наложило отпечаток на его жизнь и творчество и нашло отражение в лучшем его романе "Бойня номер пять". В 1967 г. он приехал в Дрезден, чтобы собрать материал для романа, который впоследствии был признан шедевром. Один из ведущих мастеров прозы, в произведениях которого современная жизнь предстает как абсурдная, неуправляемая, апокалиптическая комедия. Ведущие темы его творчества - дегуманизирующее влияние технологий, доброта как единственное средство одолеть человеческую глупость и жестокость. Давая художественную интерпретацию этих тем, писатель сплавляет воедино иронию, сатиру, научную фантастику и трагикомедию.

An 'autobiographical collage' of speeches, stories and essays, in Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight mania, and bittersweet tributes to a dead best friend and a dead marriage.

Whilst awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison, Howard W. Campbell Jr sets down his memoirs on an old German typewriter. He has used such a typewriter before, when he worked as a Nazi propagandist under Goebbels. Though that was before he agreed to become a spy for US military. Is Howard guilty? Can a black or white verdict ever be reached in a world thats a gazillion shades of grey?

An 'autobiographical collage' of speeches, stories and essays, in Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight mania, and bittersweet tributes to a dead best friend and a dead marriage.

Whilst awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison, Howard W. Campbell Jr sets down his memoirs on an old German typewriter. He has used such a typewriter before, when he worked as a Nazi propagandist under Goebbels. Though that was before he agreed to become a spy for US military. Is Howard guilty? Can a black or white verdict ever be reached in a world thats a gazillion shades of grey?