Slaughterhouse-Five or The childrens crusade - A duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. MP3 Audiobook

Slaughterhouse-Five or The childrens crusade - A duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. MP3 Audiobook

Catturato dai tedeschi in Belgio, lo statunitense Billy Pilgrim viene trasferito
in un campo di concentramento. Qui subisce le persecuzioni di un altro inteato,
Paul Lazzaro, che lo crede responsabile della morte dellamico Willy; ma viene
anche difeso dallanziano professore Edgar Derby, anchegli prigioniero. Il gruppo
dei prigionieri americani viene trasferito dai tedeschi a Dresda, nello Schlachtow
Funf (Mattatoio 5). Il 13 febbraio 1945, gli statunitensi bombardano la citta,
distruggendola, e uccidendo centotrentacinquemila persone: un massacro orrendo ed
inutile. Durante i lavori di sgombero delle macerie, Derby viene ritenuto
ingiustamente un ladro e ucciso dalle SS.
Finita la guerra, Billy toa accanto alla moglie Valencia e ai figli Barbara
e Robert, riprendendo con successo la sua professione di oculista. Non riesce,
pero, a cancellare dalla memoria i momenti terribili del suo passato.
Successivamente esce miracolosamente vivo da un incidente aereo finche, dopo la
morte della moglie, finisce per abbandonarsi completamente alle proprie fantasie...

PLOT

Chaplains Assistant Billy Pilgrim is a disoriented, fatalistic, and ill trained
American soldier. He doesnt like wars and he is captured by the Germans during the
Battle of the Bulge and taken to a prison in Dresden. The Germans put Billy and his
fellow prisoners in a disused (although there are animal carcasses hanging in the
underground shelter) slaughterhouse, their building is known as "Slaughterhouse
number 5". The POWs and German guards alike hide in a deep cellar; because of their
safe hiding place, they are some of the few survivors of the city destroying
firestorm during the Bombing of Dresden in World War II.
Billy has come "unstuck in time" and experiences past and future events out of
sequence and repetitively, following a nonlinear narrative. He is kidnapped by
extraterrestrial aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. They exhibit him in a zoo with
B movie po starlet Montana Wildhack as his mate. The Tralfamadorians, who can see
in four dimensions, have already seen every instant of their lives. They believe in
predestination. They say they cannot choose to change anything about their fates, but
can choose to concentrate upon any moment in their lives, and Billy becomes convinced
of the veracity of their theories.
As Billy travels.or believes he travels.forward and backward in time, he relives
occasions of his life, real and fantasy. He spends time on Tralfamadore, in Dresden,
in the War, walking in deep snow before his German capture, in his mundane post war
married life in the U.S.A. of the 1950s, and in the moment of his murder by Lazzaro.
Billys death is the consequence of a string of events. Before the Germans capture
Billy, he meets Roland Weary, a jingoist character who constantly chastises him for
his lack of enthusiasm toward war. At their capture, the Germans confiscate everything
Weary has, including his boots, giving him hinged, wooden clogs to wear;
Weary eventually dies of gangrene caused by the clogs. On his deathbed, Weary manages
to convince Paul Lazzaro that Billy is to blame; Paul vows to avenge Wearys death by
killing Billy, because revenge is "the sweetest thing in life". Time traveler Billy
already knows where, when, and how he will be killed: he is shot with a laser gun
after his speech on flying saucers and the true nature of time before a large audience
in Chicago, in balkanized United States on February 13, 1976 (in future to the date of
writing).

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