What “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now

Re:What “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now by oceanghost on Friday June 14, 2019 @03:15PM (#20185839)

I generally respect Salman Rushdie (the author of the article), But I really feel he's missed the point. I am far less qualified to criticize literature than he, but I'm going to do it anyways.

SL5 is about one thing. PTSD. PTSD was not a diagnosis when the book was written, but it is at least clear to me, that the book is about a fractured man trying to repair itself by creating a world view that is comforting to it. His becoming unstuck in time is, in my mind, simply a sci-fi flashback, or perhaps, flash-forward in this case?

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Re:What “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now by funkjunky on Friday June 14, 2019 @04:37PM (#20186481)

That's a pretty reductive viewpoint. While PTSD is certainly a component of the story, it is all but a facet of the humanity and consequences of war

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Re:What “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now by oceanghost on Saturday June 15, 2019 @06:52PM (#20192681)

All viewpoints are reductive. That's exactly the point of them.

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Re:What “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now by cafard on Friday June 14, 2019 @03:44PM (#20186093)

Nobody said PTSD, but one heard of shell shock or combat fatigue.

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