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Considered his most influential and popular work, Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969) is a science fiction-infused anti-war novel /  semi-autobiographical by Kurt Vonnegut about the World War II experiences and journeys through time of Billy Pilgrim, from his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant, to postwar and early years. A central event is Pilgrim's surviving the Allies' firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner-of-war. This was an event in Vonnegut's own life.

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Billy Pilgrim
A World War Ii Veteran - Pow Survivor Of The Firebombing Of Dresden - Prospering Optometrist - Husband - And Father. Billy Pilgrim Is The Protagonist Of The Novel Who Believes He Has "Come Unstuck In Time." He Walks Through A Door At One Moment In His Life And Suddenly Finds Himself In Another Time And Place. His Fragmented Experience Of Time Structures The Novel As Short Episodic Vignettes And Shows How The Difficulty Of Recounting Traumatic Experiences Can Require Unusual Literary Techniques
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