Slaughter-house 5 or the Crusade of the children

Slaughter-house 5 or the Crusade of the children (original title: Slaughterhouse Five gold the Children' S Crusade ) is a novel of Science-fiction of the writer states-unien Kurt Vonnegut Jr published in 1969.

French editions

Slaughter-house 5 of Kurt Vonnegut Jr, translated from American by Fabienne Lotringer, knew various French editions:

Threshold, 1971;
I have Lu, coll “Science fiction”, n°470, 1973;
Threshold, coll “Point-novels”, n° 508,1992, ISBN 2-02-014694-0;
Threshold, coll “Point-novels”, n° 508,1993, n° 1243; ISBN 2-02-040810-4, 2004.

Masterpiece of the science fiction

This novel was classified among the masterpieces of the Science-fiction in the following reference books:

Lorris Murail, the Masters of the science fiction , Bordered, coll “Compact”, 1993;
Stan Barets, science-fictionnaire , Denoël, coll “Presence of the future”, 1994.

Criticisms specialized

In its History of the modern science fiction , appeared in 1984, Jacques Sadoul declares in connection with this novel: Kurt Vonnegut Jr astutely mixed the S-F and his memories with the Second world war to very violently write to a novel antimilitarist and who makes us physically feel the uselessness and the horror of the war. A very beautiful work. .

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