❞ رواية Cat's Cradle ❝ ⏤ Kurt Vonnegut

هذا القسم يحتوي علي العديد من القصص والروايات باللغة الإنجليزية

(Stories and novels) القصص والروايات
الرواية هي سرد نثري طويل يصف شخصيات خيالية أو واقعية وأحداثاً على شكل قصة متسلسلة، كما أنها أكبر الأجناس القصصية من حيث الحجم وتعدد الشخصيات وتنوع الأحداث، وقد ظهرت في أوروبا بوصفها جنساً أدبياً مؤثراً في القرن الثامن عشر، والرواية حكاية تعتمد السرد بما فيه من وصف وحوار وصراع بين الشخصيات وما ينطوي عليه ذلك من تأزم وجدل وتغذيه الأحداث
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the Italian novella for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the Latin novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning "new". Walter Scott made a distinction between the novel, in which (as he saw it) "events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society" and the romance, which he defined as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents". However, many such romances, including the historical romances of Scott, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". This sort of romance is in turn different from the genre fiction love romance or romance novel
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood.

A dictionary definition is "an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood rather than plot."

The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella (a shorter novel), authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques.

Cat's Cradle    

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me
John.
 Jonah – John - if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah
still, not because I have been unlucky for others, but because
somebody or something has compelled me to be certain places at
certain times, without fail. Conveyances and motives, both
conventional and bizarre, have been provided. And, according to
plan, at each appointed second, at each appointed place this Jonah
was there.
 Listen: 
 When I was a younger man--two wives ago, 250,000 cigarettes
ago, 3,000 quarts of booze ago.
 When I was a much younger man, I began to collect material
for a book to be called The Day the World Ended.
 The book was to be factual.
 The book was to be an account of what important Americans had
done on the day when the first atomic bomb was dropped on
Hiroshima, Japan.
 It was to be a Christian book. I was a Christian then.
 I am a Bokononist now.
 I would have been a Bokononist then, if there had been anyone
to teach me the bittersweet lies of Bokonon. But Bokononism was
unknown beyond the gravel beaches and coral knives that ring this
little island in the Caribbean Sea, the Republic of San Lorenzo.
 We Bokononists believe that humanity is organized into teams,
teams that do God's Will without ever discovering what they are
doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon, and the
instrument, the kan-kan, that brought me into my own particular
karass was the book I never finished, the book to be called The
Day the World Ended. 

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