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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.
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- 1969
Jun 13, 2019 · The truth is that “Slaughterhouse-Five” is a great realist novel. Its first sentence is “All this happened, more or less.”. In that nonfictional first chapter, Vonnegut tells us how hard...
- Kurt Vonnegut Made Multiple Attempts to Start Slaughterhouse-Five.
- Vonnegut Credits Iowa’s Writing Program For Rekindling His Love of Literature.
- He Was Offered An Impressive Book advance.
- Slaughterhouse-Five Was An Instant hit.
- The Novelgarnered Fantastic Reviews.
- Slaughterhouse-Five Was Banned in Schools in The 1970s ...
- And It’S Still Being Banned in Schools Decades later.
- A Library Gave Away Copies of Slaughterhouse-Five Because of The Ban.
- When It Comes to Banned Books, Slaughterhouse-Five Is in Good Company.
- Vonnegut Approved of The Film Adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five.
After repeated and failed attempts to start his “Dresden book,” Vonnegut finally began what would become Slaughterhouse-Five during a two-year teaching stintat the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He had stopped writing fiction and was in a considerable funk when he accepted the invitation, offered by his former editor George Starbuck who was ...
“Suddenly writing seemed very important again,” he said. “This was better than a transplant of monkey glands for a man my age.” In addition to befriending Nelson Algren and Jose Donoso, he also became friends with Richard Yates while there, and some of his students included Gail Godwin, John Irving, Jonathan Penner, Bruce Dobler, John Casey, and Ja...
Impressed by the book reviewsVonnegut wrote during his hiatus from fiction, publisher Seymour Lawrence offered Vonnegut a $25,000 advance to work on his Dresden book (and two other novels) full-time.
Published on March 31, 1969,Slaughterhouse-Five became an instant and surprise hit. It spent 16 weeks on The New York Timesbestseller list and went through five printings by July.
The novel owes much of its immediate success to two rave reviews; one in The New York Times Book Review, which was featured on the section’s front page, and another in the Saturday Review.
Slaughterhouse-Five was bannedfrom Oakland County, Michigan, public schools in 1972. The circuit judge there accused the novel of being “depraved, immoral, psychotic, vulgar, and anti-Christian.” In 1973, a school board in North Dakota immolated 32 copies of the book in the high school’s coal burner. “My books are being thrown out of school librari...
In 2011, Wesley Scroggins, then an assistant professor at Missouri State University, called on the Republic, Missouri, school board to ban Vonnegut’s novel. He wrote in the local paper, “This is a book that contains so much profane language, it would make a sailor blush with shame. The ‘f word’ is plastered on almost every other page. The content r...
In response to this ban, the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis gave away 150 free copies of Slaughterhouse-Fiveto Republic, Missouri, students who wanted to read it.
The American Library Association listed the bookas the 46th most banned or challenged book of the first decade of the 21st century.
A film adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five directed by George Roy Hill and starring Michael Sacks as Billy Pilgrim was produced in 1972. Vonnegut called it“flawless.”
Several of Vonnegut’s works touch on themes of war, but Slaughterhouse-Five is the novel that most closely skirts the line of personal narrative, flirting with memoir, addressing the reader with, “All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.”
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Sep 24, 2024 · Slaughterhouse-Five, antiwar novel by Kurt Vonnegut, published in 1969. The absurdist , nonlinear work blends science fiction with historical facts, notably Vonnegut’s own experience as a prisoner of war in Dresden , Germany, during the Allied firebombing of that city in early 1945.
Apr 13, 2019 · Vonnegut was an Army scout captured in the Battle of the Bulge and shoved into a slaughterhouse meat locker in Dresden, before cathedrals and people were incinerated one night in mid-February...
Mar 31, 2019 · Slaughterhouse-Five is more in the nature of a superpower that the mutant author had to teach himself to master—and then could use, at full strength, only once. Read: The never-ending campaign...
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