Everything revolves around a bombing seen from within, from inside a slaughterhouse that is the same time, place and metaphor, stomach sick and privileged vantage point. The goal is to Dresden, we are in the last years of World War II, and the city will have nothing, apart from stumps of blackened buildings, bits of flesh on the streets and stifling air. Kurt Vonnegut, involuntary witness of the firestorm (and here in the figurative sense: because of the turmoil and incendiary developed a real whirlwind of flames that enveloped the entire city) as a prisoner of war, once the threshold of his hiding reality quell'apocalittica law with sentences of pinpoint accuracy, "Do not was prudent to leave the shelter until noon the next day. When the Americans and their guards came out, the sky was black with smoke. The sun was a pinhead. Dresden was like the moon now, nothing but minerals. The stones are very hot. Nearby were all dead. So it goes. " A novel by the explosive force of a masterpiece and what is Slaughterhouse Five Number can not say much more, except that the main character is named Billy Pilgrim, and is suffering from a strange disease, which sometimes bursts into tears (perhaps because, among other things, discovered the secret of time, and I do not know how many would know). Kurt Vonnegut is a writer who is able to synthesize ironies, controversy, stories with a verve and visionary landscapes, especially knowing that "there is no special relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully so that , seen together, produce an image of life that is beautiful, surprising and profound. There principle, part of the middle or end, no suspense, no moral, no causes and effects. What we love in our books is the depth of many marvelous moments seen all at once. " Topical, even today, in an extraordinary way (just read the pages devoted to the relationship between the Americans and poverty) because the story is recycled unimaginative lives are overwhelmed by the war, unable to understand how we arrived and because it will never end. The courage and beauty in a narrator as Kurt Vonnegut are that if he raises big questions, perhaps with a smile on his lips and between the lines, but without the fear of controversy or criticism or both. Without escape characters in webs of circumstance and sweetened, even if to say: "I made bad use of fiction to spread my wacky ideas about the United States of America, follies that would best fit the editorial page some badly printed comic fanatics from france extreme. First among these ideas, that the disease most common among my fellow countrymen is the loneliness. " It 's true, then, as Kurt Vonnegut himself says that "in life there are more things than you read in books, but his novels are a kind of remedy, a way to dream of payment or to read more bottom of reality, not afraid to laugh.
