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Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut.It follows the life experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant during World War II, to the post-war years.
The character Eliot Rosewater, the novel's focus, reappears incidentally in Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) and Breakfast of Champions (1973). The description of the fire-bombing of Dresden, which Eliot hallucinates as affecting Indianapolis in chapter 13, remains a master theme from now on in Vonnegut's writing and is central to Slaughterhouse-Five ...
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade, first published in 1969, features Eliot Rosewater in Chapter Five. Billy Pilgrim, the main character of the novel, has committed himself to a psychiatric hospital during his last year of optometry school, and finds himself sharing a room with Eliot Rosewater. Eliot introduces Billy Pilgrim to the ...
Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1972 American comedy-drama military science fiction film directed by George Roy Hill and produced by Paul Monash, from a screenplay by Stephen Geller, based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut. [1] The film stars Michael Sacks as Billy Pilgrim, who is "unstuck in time" and has no control over where he is ...
Kurt Vonnegut (/ ˈ v ɒ n ə ɡ ə t / VON-ə-gət; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. [1] His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty-plus years; further works have been published since his death.
In the 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Tralfamadore is the home to organic beings who can see into all times, and are thus privy to knowledge of future events. [3] [5] Lawrence R. Broer described both them and their counterparts from Sirens as "ludicrous-looking". [6]
The graphic novel version of “Slaughterhouse-Five,” a science fiction novel exploring the horrors of war, for example, includes some depictions of nudity and sex, with characters largely ...
So Slaughterhouse-Five is quoting a fictional character explicitly quoting Robert Saundby. In fact, Slaughterhouse-Five gives detailed attribution for the quote: "One of the books that Lily had brought Rumfoord was The Destruction of Dresden, by an Englishman named David Irving. It was an American edition, published by Holt, Rinehart and ...