Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegutliterary work· published 1969
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Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
Adaptations (1)
Slaughterhouse-Five was adapted into a 1972 film.
Slaughterhouse-Five1972 · film · 104 min · dir. George Roy Hill · IMDb ↗Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
