Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade
A Duty-Dance with Death
Slaughterhouse-Five is part autobiographical, part science-fiction, part sarcastic master work by Kurt Vonnegut. It is often assigned by college and high school reading and writing classes, especially when our President wants us to go out and kill somebody. Slaughterhouse-Five came out in 1969 near the height of the War in Vietnam. At that time, our President told us the Vietnam War was a war we had to fight to protect the freedom loving people of South Vietnam from being overwhelmed by the Communist North. We lost that war. Kurt Vonnegut's long awaited war novel proved to be a miracle of compression. It is a contemporary Pilgram's Progress w…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-4-87187-916-3
- EAN: 9784871879163
- Produktnummer: 31809580
- Verlag: Ishi Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 198 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.0 cm 257 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 257
Über den Autor
Mr. Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis Indiana, in 1922 and attended Cornell University, Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Universities of Tennessee and Chicago. His novels include Player Piano and 14 other books and numerous magazine articles. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction, with further collections being published after his death. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). He was born November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis Indiana. Vonnegut attended Cornell University but dropped out in January 1943 and enlisted in the United States Army. As part of his training, he studied mechanical engineering at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and the University of Tennessee. On May 14, 1944, Vonnegut returned home on leave to visit his mother for mother's day, only to discover that his mother had committed suicide the previous day. Vonnegut was then deployed to Europe to fight in World War II and was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He was interned in Dresden and survived the Allied bombing of the city by taking refuge in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned. I first became aware of Kurt Vonnegut when I was a kid and read an article by him in Colliers Magazine about a trip to Mars. We believed that there had really been a trip to Mars and our government was covering it up and keeping it a secret. It was a while before we realized the article was science fiction. I wonder how many others were fooled by this. He died April 11, 2007 (aged 84) in Manhattan New York City, USA
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