Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical interpretations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-five.

Vonnegut, Kurt.

Physical Description:

vii, 183 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2009]

Summary:

Captured by Germans after World War II's Battle of the Bulge, soldier Kurt Vonnegut and other prisoners were taken to Dresden. There, they were confined in a cement enclosure used for butchering livestock called Slaughterhouse-Five. Several weeks later, American and British planes firebombed Dresden, killing 135, 000 civilians and leveling the city. By taking cover in an underground meat locker, the prisoners survived. Vonnegut spent two decades coming to grips with the experience, producing this classic American novel as his ultimate response to the ordeal. Introduced by esteemed scholar Harold Bloom, this new collection of full-length critical essays discusses Vonnegut's searing vision of the atrocities of war.

Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations, a series of more than 100 volumes, presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels, and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and The Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Don DeLillo's White Noise. Each volume opens with an introductory essay and editor's note by Harold Bloom and includes a bibliography, a chronology of the writer's life and works, and notes on the contributors. Taken together, Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations provides a comprehensive critical guide to the most vital and influential works of the Western literary tradition.

Contents:

Slaughterhouse-five / William Rodney Allen

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five or, How to storify an atrocity / Peter Freese

Rewriting history: Céline and Kurt Vonnegut / Philip Watts

Slaughterhouse-five: Pilgrim's Progress / Lawrence R. Broer

The Vietnamization of World War II in Slaughterhouse-five and Gravity's Rainbow / Christina Jarvis

Breaking the silence / Donald E. Morse

Speaking personally: Slaughterhouse-Five and the essays / Jerome Klinkowitz

"You must remember this": trauma and memory in Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-five / Alberto Cacicedo

"A launching pad of belief": Kurt Vonnegut and postmodern humor / Kevin Brown

Slaughterhouse-five (1969): so it goes / Scott MacFarlane.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781604135855

1604135859

OCLC:

290487328