THE PECULIARITY OF THE APPROACH TO THE ISSUE OF WAR IN K. VONNEGUT’S NOVEL “SLAUGHTERHOUSE - FIVE, OR, THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE”

Abstract

The present paper is an attempt to discuss some peculiarities of an approach to the issue of war in K. Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse - Five, or the Children’s Crusade’. The description of the war itself is not of primary importance as compared to the suppression of individuality under totalitarian ideology. For K. Vonnegut and his contemporaries the world is absurd and is excluded from human ‘I’ and the novel itself is the sarcastic reflection of the idea. The author considers it impossible to give a comprehensible picture of the war the way it is impossible to find logic in absurdity and he actually tries to explain the reader why it is impossible to write about war. K. Vonnegut believes that war is not the way to restore justice as it never existed.