在1984年5月日本东京召开的第47届国际笔会代表大会上,我国的作协主席巴金被当选为当代世界文化名人。在七位当选者中,有两位美国人,其中之一就是美国著名作家、国际笔会美国分会副主席库尔特·冯内古特。在60年代美国的大学生、年轻知识分子以及文化方面的各种持异议者中,冯内古特是最有名气、最拥有广大读者群的小说家。同时,在“叛逆文学”的核心中,他占据着和塞林格在50年代所拥有的那种相同的地位。无论把他划为讽刺作家和黑色幽默作家,还是间或划之为科幻小说家,冯内古特所关心的主要是遭受战争创伤的残酷世界里的道德和怜悯。他 At the 47th PEN Congress in Tokyo, Japan, in May 1984, Pugin, chairman of our country’s writers’ association, was elected as a cultural celebrity in the contemporary world. Among the seven candidates, two are Americans, one of whom is Kurt Vonnegut, a famous American writer and vice chairman of PEN American Chapter. Among the undergraduates, young intellectuals and cultural dissidents of the United States in the 1960s, Vonnegut is the most famous novelist with the largest readership. At the same time, he occupies the same position as Salinger had in the 1950s at the heart of “rebel literature.” Whether it is classified as a satirical writer or a black humorist, or as a science fiction writer, Vonnegut is primarily concerned with morality and compassion in the brutal world war-torn. he