Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-fiveHarold Bloom Captured by Germans after World War II's Battle of the Bulge, soldier Kurt Vonnegut and other POWs were taken to Dresden, where they were confined in a cement shed used for butchering livestock : "Schlachthof-fünf," |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Biographical Sketch | 9 |
The Story Behind the Story | 13 |
List of Characters | 17 |
Summary and Analysis | 20 |
Critical Views | 51 |
Peter J Reed on the Context of Dresden | 53 |
Stanley Schatt on Stream of Consciousness in the Novel | 57 |
William Rodney Allen on the Use of Time in the Novel | 78 |
Kurt Vonnegut on Dresden Interview with Lee Roloff | 83 |
Josh Simpson on Billy Pilgrim and Science Fiction | 88 |
Alberto Cacicedo on SlaughterhouseFive and Catch22 | 92 |
Works by Kurt Vonnegut | 101 |
Annotated Bibliography | 102 |
Contributors | 105 |
Acknowledgments | 107 |
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