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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Novel
Slaughterhouse-Five
- by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- (Delacorte Press, March 1969)
Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran and sometimes zoo occupant on a far-off planet, lives one moment of his life, then he’s thrown back to another, then forward again, and so on amidst the sadness of what men do to each other in this deterministic and fatalistic universe.
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn’t his. Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. And so on.
Feature Film
Slaughterhouse-Five
- by Stephen Geller, directed by George Roy Hill
- (at movie theaters, USA, 15 March 1972)
Billy Pilgrim’s life, unstuck in time, is faithfully brought to the big screen, including the role of fellow patient Mr. Rosewater who, I believe, is reading a Kilgore Trout story. —Michael Main
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