124458 20230526092910.0 sideral 132891 ART-2022-132891 eng Collado Rodríguez, Francisco Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-2922-9194 A satiric quest for knowledge: Kurt Vonnegut's legacy 2022 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted n 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” info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 2022, 2 (2022), 24-33 Nexus (Santiago de Compostela) Nexus (Santiago de Compostela) 1697-4646 155516 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/124458/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 793504 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/124458/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:124458 articulos driver 2023-05-26-08:14:04 ARTICLE