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Slaughterhouse-Five, existentialist themes elaborated in a postmodernist way

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I would like to thank D.W. Fokkema, A.M. Iken and A. Rigney for their critical attention to draft versions of this essay.

[Translation: Rob Kievit.]

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van Stralen, H. Slaughterhouse-Five, existentialist themes elaborated in a postmodernist way. Neophilologus 79, 3–12 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00999558

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