Slaughterhouse-Five

or the children's crusade : a duty-dance withdeath.

285 pages

English language

Published July 1, 2010 by RosettaBooks.

ISBN:
978-0-440-18029-6
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.

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Mattatoio n. 5

Con Mattatoio n. 5 Vonnegut si aggiunge alla schiera di autorə che hanno cercato di raccontare l’inenarrabile: l’orrore della guerra. Vonnegut è da subito sincero: da testimone diretto del bombardamento di Dresda durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale – bombardamento che provocò la distruzione di gran parte della città e la morte di migliaia di persone – sa che non c’è molto da dire su un massacro. È la fine di un enorme numero di persone per le quali non è possibile più fare nulla, se non tacere. A che servirebbero, infatti, le parole?

E allora perché Vonnegut alla fine il suo romanzo su Dresda lo ha scritto? Perché, se secondo lui le guerre continueranno a scoppiare e a seminare morte e distruzione, sforzarsi tanto di trovare una forma letteraria per raccontare il massacro di lui è stato testimone? E perché ha deciso di farlo tramite un personaggio che viaggia nel …

Life is mostly OK, occasionally weird or unpleasant, always pointless, and then you die. So it goes

This is a beautifully written book about the pointlessness of war. It’s brilliance is that Vonnegut manages to make his point in a gentle way without getting angry or blaming anyone. It is very, very sad but also funny, whimsical and occasionally psychedelically weird (the aliens look like sink plungers with hands).

The lead character drifts aimlessly through the story as the people around him die in pointless ways. So it goes. His lack of agency which would normally annoy me, but in this case it’s fundamental to the point of the novel. The aliens have taught him that the past, present and future all exist forever and can’t be changed. Pilgrim’s consciousness veers wildly through time as he visits each important moment in his life. He knows where and when he will die and is as stoical about that as he is about the things that happened in the …

Review of 'Slaughterhouse 5' on 'Storygraph'

This is a beautifully written book about the pointlessness of war. It’s brilliance is that Vonnegut manages to make his point in a gentle way without getting angry or blaming anyone. It is very, very sad but also funny, whimsical and occasionally psychedelically weird (the aliens look like sink plungers with hands).

The lead character drifts aimlessly through the story as the people around him die in pointless ways. So it goes. His lack of agency which would normally annoy me, but in this case it’s fundamental to the point of the novel. The aliens have taught him that the past, present and future all exist forever and can’t be changed. Pilgrim’s consciousness veers wildly through time as he visits each important moment in his life. He knows where and when he will die and is as stoical about that as he is about the things that happened in the …

Review of 'Slaughterhouse-Five' on 'LibraryThing'

It seems reliable sources say the book was copyright 1969! My copy has 1966, and 1968 ?! with imprints "70 69 68 67", and a publishing date of 1991. Why does this matter? because in 1969, i not only met my wife, on Friday the 13th, but was in the middle of a two-year tour with the NSA in Turkey.

Review of 'Slaughterhouse-five' on 'Storygraph'

After Vonnegut's death, I went back and read Slaughterhouse 5, which I hadn't read since high school. Vonnegut is not a great stylist. His female characters are not really characters at all.

Nevertheless, he knows what he believes, but questions his beliefs mercilessly. He is straightforward and gets to the point. His heroes are often inept but teach us what it means to be human. Vonnegut was my hero in high schoool, and he still is.

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