Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death is a 1969 novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. His most popular work and widely regarded as a classic, it combines science fiction elements with an analysis of the human condition from an uncommon perspective, using time travel as a plot device and the bombing of Dresden in World War II, which Vonnegut witnessed, as a starting point.
Further reading
- Slaughterhouse-Five, ISBN 0440180295
- Slaughterhouse-Five: Reforming the Novel and the World by Jerome Klinkowitz, ISBN 0-8057-9410-7
- Modern Critical Interpretations: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five edited by Harold Bloom, ISBN 0-7910-5925-1
~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Plot |
| ► | Literary Techniques |
| ► | Possible explanation for time travel |
| ► | Cameo appearances |
| ► | Controversy |
| ► | "Reporting" aspects |
| ► | Further reading |
| ► | External links |
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