Slaughterhouse number 05, by: Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut was a witness to what happened in Dresden. He was held in one of the slaughterhouses with others from the Allied soldiers who were captured during the battles by the Germans. Vonnegut survived the Holocaust for a logical reason: the slaughterhouse where he was held was built underground. To embody the horrors resulting from the bombing of Dresden with incendiary bombs, he wrote a novel in which his genius is manifested both technically and intellectually, in order to give the Dresden disaster unusual dimensions that make it an event surpassing its historical reality and transcend it. The confusing reality of the writer and the difficulty of shaping it led to abandoning traditional narrative conventions and adopting fantastic fantasy as the most suitable medium to embody his terrible experience. The novel is among the most widespread and popular novels in the post-World War II period, and its popularity is attributed to its strong reliance on the legacy of science fiction novels. The invented myth breathes life into the novel's text; it is the myth of space travel. Since the parts of the novel filled with science fiction satisfy the reader's need to soar through science fiction, the parts related to World War II leave an indelible impression on his conscience due to the horrors of war and its accompanying atrocities. Number of pages 269.