American Literature / Unit 16 AML 1534 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Kurt Vonnegut and *Slaughterhouse-Five*
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The idea
Vonnegut witnessed the Allied firebombing of Dresden on the ground as a prisoner of war and wrote his antiwar novel about it in nineteen sixty-nine, subtitled The Children's Crusade. The witness calls him one of the shining lights of the counterculture in the early nineteen seventies.
In practice
Dresden, seen from inside as a prisoner.
Where people slip
The novel came twenty-four years after.
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