Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut - Classic Anti-War Novel | Postmodern Literature | Great for Book Clubs & Literature Students
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Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes 'unstuck in time' after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.Slaughterhouse-Five is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is also as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch-22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it unique poignancy -- and humor.
Customer Reviews
This is one of the best books of the 20th century and is widely recognized as such. But here's the beginning of the product description here:"Adapted for a magnificent George Roy Hill film three years later (perhaps the only film adaptation of a masterpiece which exceeds its source)"I was so intrigued by this weird description of a beloved classic as somehow inferior to a movie I didn't know existed by a forgotten director that I tracked down a copy of that George Roy Hill film. It's fine. It does some clever stuff. It's a decent attempt to make a movie out of a book that wants very badly to stay a book. It's ultimately pretty forgettable, even to people who remember George Roy Hill's better movies. It doesn't show any aliens or really even any bombing, so there's nothing to recommend it over the book. Congratulations to George Roy Hill's son or whoever wrote that description in getting to me to pick up a copy of the movie, though.
