![]() ![]() ![]() Instead he has written around it in a highly imaginative, often funny, nearly psychedelic story. So he has not even tried to describe the bombing. Kurt Vonnegut knows all the tricks of the writing game. Vonnegut pronounces his book a failure ‘because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.’ He’s wrong and he knows it. In the same introduction, which should be read aloud to children, cadets and basic trainees, Mr. Now, at last, he’s finished the ‘famous Dresden book.’ And, as he writes in the introduction to Slaughterhouse-Five, he’s been trying to write a book about Dresden ever since. Next to being born, getting married and having children, it is probably the most important thing that ever happened to him. 13, 1945, when the Allies firebombed Dresden in a massive air attack that killed 130,000 people and destroyed a landmark of no military significance. During World War II, at the age of 23, he was captured by the Germans and imprisoned beneath the city of Dresden, ‘the Florence of the Elbe.’ He was there on Feb. “Kurt Vonnegut Jr., an indescribable writer whose seven previous books are like nothing else on earth, was accorded the dubious pleasure of witnessing a 20th-century apocalypse. ![]()
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