000124458 001__ 124458 000124458 005__ 20230526092910.0 000124458 0248_ $$2sideral$$a132891 000124458 037__ $$aART-2022-132891 000124458 041__ $$aeng 000124458 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0003-2922-9194$$aCollado Rodríguez, Francisco$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000124458 245__ $$aA satiric quest for knowledge: Kurt Vonnegut's legacy 000124458 260__ $$c2022 000124458 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000124458 5203_ $$an his perceptive essay on Vonnegut’s masterpiece Slaughterhouse-Five, Salman Rushdie comments that the first time he read the novel, in 1972, he felt the presence in its pages of the Vietnam War. Despite the fact that Vonnegut’s classic book deals with the Second World War and its psychological aftermaths, Rushdie argues that “people’s feelings about Vietnam have a good deal to do with the novel’s huge success” (2019, 2). Nevertheless, the literary and emotional achievements of the novel have extended for decades after the end of the Vietnam War, which may bring to mind the idea that Slaughterhouse-Five is still a powerful book because wars have never stopped. Vonnegut’s novel, Rushdie perceives, “sees war as a tragedy so great that perhaps only the mask of comedy allows one to look it in the eye” 000124458 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aAll rights reserved$$uhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 000124458 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000124458 7102_ $$13004$$2345$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.$$cÁrea Filología Inglesa 000124458 773__ $$g2022, 2 (2022), 24-33$$pNexus (Santiago de Compostela)$$tNexus (Santiago de Compostela)$$x1697-4646 000124458 8564_ $$s155516$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/124458/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000124458 8564_ $$s793504$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/124458/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000124458 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:124458$$particulos$$pdriver 000124458 951__ $$a2023-05-26-08:14:04 000124458 980__ $$aARTICLE