This piece addresses the post-modernist poetic of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse 5, analysing the parodic discourse, the protagonist’s personal philosophy and the role of irony as the narrative’s dominant figure. Considered one of the greatest anti-war novels, Slaughterhouse 5 is interpreted here as historiographic meta-fiction, in which the novelist’s humanist intent is interwoven with the fatalistic spirit of the character. Additionally, the irony is analysed on two levels, that of language and that of situation.
Keywords: postmodernism, metafiction, irony, parody, intertextual, demystification
Issue Year: 2020
Issue No: 19
Page range: 31 – 46
Page count: 16
Language: Albanian
Interview:
Ann Jefferson: The Art of Interpretation
Articles:
Primo Shllaku: Zef Zorba
Sherif Luzha: Parodia e Kurt Vonnegut-it [The Parody in Kurt
Vonnegut]
Kastriot Kurti: Depolitizimi i kufirit të ‘zoon politikon’
[Depoliticizing the limits of ‘zoon politikon’]
Ilir Breca: Vargjet e Ovidit në veprën e Bogdanit [Ovid’s verses in
Bogdani’s writing]
Besnik Jaha: Utopia dhe Distopia [Utopia and Dystopia]
Ag Apolloni: Teatri tragjik [Tragic Theater]
Stefan Çapaliku: Një film i panjohur shqiptar [An Unknown
Albanian Film]
Intervista:
Ann Jefferson: Arti i interpretimit
ISSN (online): 2415-2749. ISSN (print): 2310-9998. Issue 19/2020. E-mail:
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