Take a look at cat slave writers: those literati who love cats...

Every great writer needs a cat muse: Haruki Murakami, Mark Twain, Allan Poe, Hemingway...

What is the reason why a writer prefers cats? As Bukovsky said, "They walk in a noble straight line, sleep like simple truth, without regret or hesitation, and lie 20 hours a day."

The freedom, retardation and inattention in cats are in a sense consistent with the temperament of a real writer. No wonder so many great writers are willing to be "cat slaves". Today we will take a look at who are in history who are very close to cats. What interesting things happened to them and cats before~

Paul Sartre

Existentialist philosopher Sartre does not believe in creators like God. He firmly believes that human beings should be responsible for their actions. He once said, "We are alone, and there is no excuse."

Sartre has a cat, and he named it "Nothing". In Sartre's eyes, it is estimated that all cats should be existentialists.

And other philosophers also have very interesting names for cats. Sartre's cat is called "Nothing", and Jacques Derrida, a French philosopher who opposes Logoscentrism, named his cat "Logos", and Foucault calls his cat "Insanity".

Hemingway

Hemingway once raised a six-toed cat named Snowball. This cat was given to him by Hemingway's friend Stanley. He was the captain of a fishing boat and met Hemingway in a bar.

On February 22, 1953, a cat named "Uncle Willy" in a car accident, broke two legs, and Hemingway shot and killed it. Someone wanted to help him, but Hemingway insisted on doing it himself. Eight years later, Hemingway shot himself. Hemingway's last words are: "Good night, my kitten."

Nowadays, among the more than 70 cats who have been leisurely living in Hemingway's former residence, half are six-toed cats. They are descendants of Snowball. Later, people also called the six-toed cat "Hemingway cats".

Patricia Highsmith

American female writer Patricia Highsmith made a big splash in 1950 with her debut work "The Train Stranger", at that time, Hitchcock also quickly adapted her work into a movie, and "The Train Stranger" has since become Hitchcock's film history classic.

Patricia is also an animal lover. She has two cats and hundreds of snails.

She takes her cats with her, writes beside them, eats beside them, and even sleeps beside them. She was with them for life until her death in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Now she has also left many intimate photos with the cat. Weber, director of the Patricia Museum, once said that she would be happy with the cat. She has never been able to maintain a long-term intimacy with people, but she can do it with cats.

Ellan Poe

Ellan Poe is a cat lover. He and his wife have a cat named Catterina.

He wrote a mysterious novel called "Black Cat". The story tells a man who dug out the eyes of his cat Pluto because of alcoholism. Later he accidentally killed his wife and built the body into the wall. When the police searched, the wall made a cat's cry.

Allan Poe's "Black Cat" is a horrible story about a cat's broken limb, but his Catterina is very spiritual. When Allan Poe's wife Virginia was sick, the cat often nestled on Virginia's chest.

Ellan Poe also said, "I hope the novel I wrote can be as mysterious as a cat."

Yukio Mishima

Japanese writer Yukio Mishima loves cats very much.

He once described the personality of cats in his article, "I like that melancholy animal very much. They don't know how to perform their skills, not that they can't learn it, but that they think that things are stupid. Their expressions that are a bit clever and tantrums, their neatly arranged teeth, and their cold flattery are beyond words."

When "The Confession of the Mask" was written, the painter Shinichiro Pighum, who was responsible for the cover, gave a tomcat called "Pitel" (the brother in "Blue Bird") to Mishima. Mishima calls it Tel.

Misama Mishima did not like cats and entrusted Pier to her neighboring parents' home. Every night, Tier would knock on the windows in Sandao's study. Mishima made a hole in his study, asked Tail to enter the room, and then gave it the dried fish hidden in the table drawer.

Julio Cotasar, Argentine writer Julio Cotasar, as "one of the four major generals of the Latin American literary explosion", many of his novels contain various shadows of animals, such as the vomited white rabbit, the horrifying cockroach candy...

Julio Cotasar named his cat, borrowed the name of a German philosopher - Theodor W. Adorno.

He once wrote in his masterpiece "Eighty Worlds Day Tour", "I often long to find people who cannot sync with time like me, but they are always slim and difficult to find; but I found that cats seem to be in a similar situation to me, and there are books, and they are often forgotten by time.. ”

Hermann Hesse

Hesse is a wandering, lonely, and secluded poet. His works are mostly based on the life of petty citizens, expressing his nostalgia for the past era, and reflecting some of the despair of people in the same period.

He once wrote in "Steepwolf":

"You take a closer look at animals, a cat, a dog, a bird, or a behemoth in the zoo, a cougar or a giraffe. You will see that they are all so natural, and no animal is embarrassed, they will not be at a loss. They do not want to flatter you and attract you, and they do not play. They reveal their original appearance, just like plants, trees, mountains, rocks, sun, moon, stars. ”

Jack Kerouac

Jack likes cats very much, and he once had a cat. In the biographical movies adapted from his novel of the same name, there are many cute daily routines about this cat. He also mentioned his cat in this book:

"Under normal circumstances, the death of a cat does not mean anything to most men. But to me, the dead cat is like my little brother.

It never lie to me, sometimes sleeps on my palms, with its furry head hanging down; sometimes it just wraps around my wrist like a small blanket, I just hold it, and when he grows up, I can still hold him like this, just change it to my hands or arms.

I kissed him before I left New York and asked it to wait for me to come back. But after I left, my mother wrote to me that he was dead. ”

Viswava Simposka

Polish female poet Simposka got married twice. Her second husband, Filipovic, likes cats and fishing. After Filipovic's death, many of Simposka's photos were taken with cats.

Simposka wrote a poem "The Cat in the Unmanned Apartment", using cats to describe themselves and missed her deceased husband: "Die-Don't do this to the cat, because the cat will be at a loss in an empty house. ”

In fact, in her poems, the subtle natural and animal worlds have a very grand significance to human society, whether it is a cat in the attic or a grain of sand in the lake.

Borges

Argentine writer Borges is a "wizard". He is very good at poetry, novels, and prose.

can open up the boundaries between history, reality, literature and philosophy through the reincarnation of time and space and pauses, the transformation of dreams and reality, the connection between fantasy and reality, the synchronic existence of death and life, the mysterious suggestion of symbols and symbols, etc.

He had several cats in his life, and A large white cat named Beppo is taken from the name of a man sailing on the sea in Byron's poem.

Other cat-loving writers...

Jean Göctor, a French poet and novelist, has a very diverse identity. He is a director, painter, and musician. He discovered and supported Jean Gerney, the most shocking literary genius in the 20th century, and established a literary award named after himself.

His personality was very bold in the French cultural circle at that time. But he is very loving to cats. He once said, "I love cats like I love my home, and looking at them like watching little souls."

▽Sagan, French female writer

French writer Sagan is beautiful and outstanding, with distinctive personality, and a bit rebellious. She likes to write, horse racing, gambling, racing, alcoholism, and even drug use, but is loved by the French. It can be said that her appearance and personality are very similar to cats, free, distinctive, and unique.

Sagan has a miserable evening, and she was wearing clothes she had not changed for three days when she died - there was only a cat around her, which is very sad.

Raymond Chandler, mystery novelist

American detective little The speaker Raymond Chandler has a female cat named Taki.

Raymond likes to chat with Daki, Daki likes to lie on his manuscript. Raymond Chandler calls Daki the "Cat Secretary" and believes that Daki is helping him read the manuscript.

▽William Carlos Williams, one of the most famous poets in the United States in the 20th century, also his cat is indispensable in the narrative of life: "Whenever the north wind whistles outside, the cold and wild sweeps across the American plains, and the wind and sand slaps on our bright windows, we still brush our beloved cat comfortably and gently listen to it purr with a smile. ”

▽Doris Lessing, a British female writer

British writer Doris Lessingmus, has a representative work such as "Golden Notes", and is known as the greatest female writer after Woolf.

After she bought vegetables, she found that she won the Nobel Prize in Literature, but she thought that people were filming TV series videos very cute. In her works, she can not only describe the living conditions of people, but also the survival methods of animals (especially cats); she writes about the complex and changeable dark hearts of people, but also the ugliness and barbarity of children, and her unique and changeable style is like a cat.

Doris Lessing wrote in "On Cats": "If the fluctuations of water are born with the body of a fish, then the shape of air is born with the body of a cat. ”

▽William Burroughs, American writers

William Burroughs, together with Alan Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, are the founders of the "Beat Generation" literary movement.

Although he has always been known for his wild drug addiction works, he has a gentle side, especially for his cats. His autobiographical novella "The Heart of a Cat" tells the story of a cat who has been with him for his life. Before his death, he also wrote a diary, revealing his most sincere love for the four pet cats.

"The only thing that can resolve conflicts is love, just like my feelings for Fletch, Ruski, Spooner and Calico. It's pure love. What kind of emotions do I have for my cat now and in the past? Love? What is love - it's the most natural painkiller."

▽ Haruki Murakami, a Japanese writer

Haruki Murakami loves cats.

He once wrote: "After the work of the day, at night, I put the cat on my knees and sipped a few sips of beer while writing my first novel. These are still beautiful memories."