Slaughterhouse-Five
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What’s it about?
A traumatized WWII survivor becomes unstuck in time, reliving his life out of order—from the firebombing of Dresden to an alien zoo—in a darkly comic meditation on war, fate, and the absurdity of meaning.
You’ll learn
- Trauma fractures linear time
- Free will is an illusion
- Death is just a moment
- Storytelling can't capture horror