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A book to read and reread. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness.
Slaughterhouse-Fivewas hugely successful, brought Vonnegut an enormous audience, was a finalist for the National Book Award and a bestseller and remains four decades later as timeless and shattering a war fiction as Catch, with which it stands as the two signal novels of their riotous and furious decade.
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He is the son of an American barber, slaughterhouse five kurt vonnegut pdf download. He serves as a chaplain's assistant in the Second World War, is captured by the Germans, survives the largest massacre in European history, the fire bombing of Dresden.
Vonnegut, too, was a prisoner of war and saw that fire storm. Billy Pilgrim becomes an optometrist after the war, makes a great deal slaughterhouse five kurt vonnegut pdf download money, is kidnapped by a flying saucer from the planet Tralfamadore on his daughter's wedding night. He is mated in a public zoo on that planet - to a star of many Earthling blue movies, the gorgeous Montana Wildhack. And so on.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Once mistakenly typed as a science-fiction writer, he is now recognized as a main-stream story teller often fascinated by the magic and comic possibilities of the magazines. His books are widely used in college courses and the groundswell of his present popularity began on college campuses where he was in great demand as a speaker.
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Each section of the work is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers. It puts a special focus on the aspects of time and temporal structure in relation to the novel form and its narrative structure in relation to the protagonist Billy Pilgrim's personal trauma, his war experience and his time travelling in relation to the alternative model of time of the Tralfamadorians.
Thus, it concentrates on the postmodernist criticism of an uncritical believe in linear time, teleology and progression as also represented in the form of linear narratives.
Chaplain's Assistant Billy Pilgrim, slaughterhouse five kurt vonnegut pdf download, a disoriented, fatalistic, ill-trained American soldier, is slaughterhouse five kurt vonnegut pdf download by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge and taken to a prison in Dresden.
The Germans put Billy and his fellow prisoners in a disused slaughterhouse, known as Slaughterhouse number 5, slaughterhouse five kurt vonnegut pdf download. The POWs and German guards alike hide in a deep cellar; because of their safe hiding place, they are some of the few survivors of the city-destroying firestorm during the Bombing of Dresden in World War II.
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