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In conclusion, I wish to present how Slaughterhouse Five allows a positive paradigm shift in historiography with the historical, literary, and philosophical ideas Kurt Vonnegut presents through postmodern literature. I will discuss Vonnegut’s philosophy of time and how a non-linear view of time plays an important role in the representation of history in present, past and future events. Vonnegut’s usage and display of time is interwoven with the characteristics of historiographic metafiction. I will discuss how this is used, and to what benefits this form of historiography can adhere to the limitations of writing first-person experiences and events within a war. After which, I will discuss Vonnegut’s genre of historiography, that being historiographic metafiction. Primarily, I will focus on why and how it occurred, as well as why it was kept out of the media for so long. I learned that on Tralfamadore.This paper is a close reading of Kurt Vonnegut's work of literary fiction entitled Slaughterhouse Five, primarily it's contribution of the genre 'historiographic metafiction' to postmodern historiography, The question I will address is ‘How does Vonnegut contribute to the postmodern historical literature through the usage of historiographic metafiction?’ I will address the question by, firstly, giving a summarized description of the bombing of Dresden, the history of the event, and the historiography behind it. As Billy Pilgrim himself says near the end:Įverything is all right, and everybody has to do exactly what he does. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.’ It is not really concerned with what happens, more why.

We know all about Billy Pilgrim, his war experience, his plane crash, his extra-planetary captivity, his death, and there are no other real, fully fleshed out characters in the book: ‘There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. In fact, we are even told the final word (Poo-tee-weet). Last Sentence explained: This is unusual as we are told at the beginning of the book how it ends. Last Sentence: One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, ‘Poo-tee-weet?‘ This is definitely one of those books i can see myself reading over and over. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. which is explained by the Tralfamadorians in the middle of the book:

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One of the main themes is free will/fate etc. It follows Billy Pilgrim as he becomes ‘unstuck in time’, experiencing his life out of sequence, form the war in Germany where he lives through the Dresden bombing, to his capture on the planet Tralfamadore, to his post-war life as a succesful optometrist and ultimately to his inevitable and unavoidable death. Kind of similar to Catch-22 (both hyphenated titles, both incredibly funny in places) it truly is a remarkable piece of work which is a joy to read right from the start. Inspired by the firebombing of Dresden in 1945 (which Vonnegut himself witnessed) this is an exemplary anti-war novel. If his other books are half as good as this I’ll definitely be reading some more. I can’t believe I haven’t read any Vonnegut up until now. First Sentence: All this happened, more or less.Īll this is brilliant, more or less.