Post Modernism in kurt Vonnegut's slaughterhouse 5 and cat's cradle

Abstract

My major focus in this study is to show how Kurt Vonnegut in his fictions Car’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five parodies conventional ways of thinking and transports us to the postmodernism world of hyper-reality where the idea of the original no longer exists. Postmodernism is usually understood as phenomenon origins in Western countries. In it nothing is what it appears to be. The failure of reason is what postmodernism had learned from the world wars. Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five (1969) was perhaps the first novel to embody the sentiments of the culture that emerged after the end of the Second World War. Vonnegut’s war experience left clear marks on his writing and the book Cat’s Cradle (1963) is also no exception. We notice in Vonnegut’s fictions that postmodern literature is subversive and playful. Both books are based on Vonnegut’s own experience in world war two. They are playfully ironic and yet serious.