《猫的摇篮》是美国当代作家库尔特·冯纳古特于1963年出版的一部长篇小说。小说问世以来,受到美国广大读者热烈欢迎;特别是大学生们,书中有些句子已成为他们生活中爱说的话了。小说尖锐地讽刺美国以及西方社会中许多现象,如原子战争的残酷性,宗教的欺骗性,政治、宗教勾结起来欺骗人民等等。 “The Cradle of Cats” is a novel published in 1963 by American contemporary writer Kurt Von Nagurt. Since the advent of the novel, it has been warmly welcomed by readers of the United States; especially college students, some of the sentences in the book have become the words of love in their lives. The novel sharply satirizes many phenomena in the United States and in Western societies, such as cruelty of the atomic warfare, deceitful religion, political and religious collusion to deceive the people, and so forth.