Slaughterhouse-Five
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Slaughterhouse-Five is Kurt Vonnegut’s darkly comic, anti-war science fiction novel that follows Billy Pilgrim’s disjointed experiences of World War II and time travel, widely regarded as a classic of 20th-century American literature.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Slaughterhouse-Five canonical | 3 |
| Slaughterhouse-Five (1972 film) | 1 |
| Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anti-war novel
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novel ⓘ satirical novel ⓘ science fiction novel ⓘ |
| adaptation |
Slaughterhouse-Five
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surface form:
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972 film)
Slaughterhouse-Five (stage adaptations) ⓘ |
| author | Kurt Vonnegut ⓘ |
| censorshipStatus | frequently challenged book in the United States ⓘ |
| character |
Billy Pilgrim
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Edgar Derby ⓘ Kilgore Trout ⓘ Montana Wildhack ⓘ Roland Weary ⓘ Tralfamadorians ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| famousLine | So it goes. ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | George Roy Hill ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| genre |
metafiction
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postmodern literature ⓘ science fiction ⓘ war fiction ⓘ |
| hasAutobiographicalElements | true ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Kurt Vonnegut’s experience as a POW in Dresden ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | classic of 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective |
first-person frame narrator
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third-person limited ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
nonlinear narrative
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time travel ⓘ |
| notableEventDepicted |
bombing of Dresden
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surface form:
Bombing of Dresden in World War II
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| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
Slaughterhouse-Five
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surface form:
Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
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| placeInAuthorOeuvre | one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most famous works ⓘ |
| protagonist | Billy Pilgrim ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| publisher | Delacorte Press ⓘ |
| setting |
Dresden
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Germany ⓘ Ilion, New York ⓘ
surface form:
Ilium, New York
World War II ⓘ |
| structure | 10 chapters ⓘ |
| theme |
absurdity of war
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death ⓘ fatalism ⓘ free will and determinism ⓘ memory and time ⓘ trauma and PTSD ⓘ |
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972 film)
this entity surface form:
Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death