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库尔特·冯尼古特(Kurt Vonnegut)病逝于2007年。但如果你读过查尔斯J·希尔兹(CharlesJ.Shields)所著的那本读来时常令人悲伤心碎的传记《不过如此》(And So It Goes)的话,你就会觉得,其实,冯尼古特未尝不渴望离开他所生存的这片伤心地。更确切地说,早在1984年冯尼古特就曾经试图用服药、酗酒的方法结束自己的生命,从而搭乘冥河摆渡者卡隆之船遁入冥府。而在书中沉闷的叙述里,他与摄影师吉尔·克瑞门姿(Jill Kre-mentz)之间的婚姻也让人有入坠地狱之感。其实从一开始,冯尼古特和女性之间的关系就很纷乱。他的母亲,就是在他21岁那年的母亲节自杀的。
Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007. But if you’ve read And And It Goes, the sad, heartbroken biography of Charles J. Shields, you might think, in fact, Vonnegut did not desperately wanted to leave the sad part of his life. More specifically, as early as 1984, von Nichoot once tried to end his life with medication, alcoholism, and thus flew into the Hades under the Caron ship Styx ferry. And in the dreary narrative of the book, the marriage between him and the photographer Jill Kre-mentz also made him fall into hell. In fact, from the beginning, the relationship between von Nichoot and women is very confusing. His mother committed suicide on Mother’s Day when he was 21 years old.