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The master of black humor expresses tragic content in the form of comedy, and laughs in the face of disaster, absurdity, and despair. Joseph Hero, the author of "Catch-22", praised this book as: Vonnegut's best work. Jay McClenny said in the New York Times that "Spell" is the most hotly discussed novel with the most practical value. "Spell" is one of the masterpieces of the famous American postmodern writer Kurt Vonnegut. The novel unfolds in the inner loneliness of the protagonist Hartke, a Vietnam War veteran. Hartke recalled his own life and told readers about the absurdity of the Vietnam War and the tragic plight of Vietnam War veterans. This is an intellectual's criticism of the real world. In this book our lives are a fraud. The last master in the United States who dared to tell the truth was absurd on the one hand and true on the other. This is history. The spiritual idols of several generations in the world's literary world: Mo Yan, Haruki Murakami, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Graham Greene... The most respected public representatives of the world's media: Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, BBC... Highly praised.

The extremely wealthy Rosewater family has an heir who is not mentally healthy. He has a doctorate in law from Harvard University, but he just wants to be a firefighter; he can become the president of the United States by using his brain, but he has to answer calls from the poor in his office in a remote village; he has everything a person wants to have, but life says to him "Give, give, give it all to you," but he replies "No, no, I don't want it." In this society where only rich people have dignity, he spent all his money and embarked on a road of betrayal and separation, just to solve a problem: how to love those who are of no use? His absurd words are actually the voice of the endangered conscience in this money-oriented society, which is saying: "Damn it, you have to be a good person."

"Timeshock" is the final work written by the American postmodernist literary master Vonnegut in 1997. He used the form of science fiction, postmodernism, and humorous and satirical writing to carefully construct a special world, the "timequake": due to a crisis of self-confidence, the space-time unity in the universe suddenly shrank, resulting in a "timequake". He decided to have some fun and bounce the world back to 10 years ago. Everyone is repeating exactly what they have done before under a "delusion of having experienced it before". The stories that make you laugh one after another, and the classic quotes one after another, cleverly make the anti-traditional, non-centered and absurd theme "time earthquake" readable. The author does not make predictions or inventions like normal science fiction novels, but directly points to human nature, and even the destiny and soul of mankind. The resentment between the lines is a combination of helplessness and cynicism. It is a combination of humor and sharpness. It is worthy of being the final masterpiece of Feng's life.

When the atomic bomb landed on Hiroshima, Dr. Hernick, the "father of the atomic bomb," was playing a rope-turning game called "Cat's Cradle." He is a scientific genius and an emotional imbecile. He is fanatical and cruel, but also naive and indifferent. He is a madman who treats science as a game and has no sense of morality. But it is this madman who holds the remote control to destroy the world, again and again. Madmen destroy the world precisely because we naively trust madmen, worship madmen, and personally hand over power to madmen. The madman is destroying the world, but we naively expect him to save it.