两个世纪以来,文学界对迷人的猫科动物的敬意:各路作家的故事--从P.G. Wodehouse到Doris Lessing,从Damon Runyon到Steven Millhauser。猫的本质不可知性激发了许多想象力。伊塔洛-卡尔维诺(Italo Calvino)在《顽固的猫的花园》中的猫的秘密城市,厄休拉-K-勒奎恩(Ursula K. Le Guin)在《薛定谔的猫》中消失的猫,史蒂文-米尔豪斯(Steven Millhauser)的《猫和老鼠》中的卡通啮齿动物和它的卡通克星。在安吉拉-卡特(Angela Carter)对 "穿靴子的猫"(Puss-in-Boots)的粗俗复述中,以及在斯蒂芬-文森特-贝内特(Stephen Vincent Benét)的 "猫王"(The King of the Cats)中,猫都在炫耀自己的优越性,其中两个风度翩翩的外国人甚至比他们假装的更有异域风情。在爱丽丝-亚当斯的《群岛》和梅芙-布伦南的《我看见你了,比安卡》中,我们看到了猫对它们的主人有多么重要。无与伦比的萨基让我们在《托贝莫里》中听到了猫对我们的真实想法,他的故事讲述了一只不善言辞的动物。在这些故事和其他故事中,这本令人愉快的书为爱猫人士提供了对他们喜爱的神秘对象的多面性的赞美。
Two centuries of literary homages to the fascinating feline: stories by writers of every stripe--from P.G. Wodehouse to Doris Lessing, from Damon Runyon to Steven Millhauser. The essential unknowableness of cats has inspired many flights of fancy: Italo Calvino's secret city of cats in "The Garden of Stubborn Cats," the disappearing feline in Ursula K. Le Guin's mind-twisting "Schrödinger's Cat," the cartoon rodent and his cartoon nemesis in Steven Millhauser's "Cat 'n' Mouse." Cats flaunt their superiority in Angela Carter's bawdy retelling of "Puss-in-Boots" and in Stephen Vincent Benét's "The King of the Cats," in which two impossibly suave foreigners are revealed as even more exotic than they pretend to be. In "The Islands" by Alice Adams and "I See You, Bianca" by Maeve Brennan we see how much cats can mean to their humans. And the inimitable Saki lets us hear what cats really think of us in "Tobermory," his tale of a tactless talking animal. In these and other stories, this delightful book offers cat lovers a many- faceted tribute to the beguilingly mysterious objects of their affection.
Diana Secker Tesdell is the editor of the Everyman's Pocket Classic anthologies Christmas Stories, Love Stories, Dog Stories, Cat Stories, Horse Stories, New York Stories, Bedtime Stories, Stories of Art and Artists, Stories of Fatherhood, Stories of Motherhood, Stories of the Sea, and Stories from the Kitchen, and of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poet Lullabies and Poems for Children.
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