That is what Kurt Vonnegut had to face in Dresden

-Firebombing of Dresden in 1945

-The "Dresden Novel"

-Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle

Thesis: Vonnegut's strange and surreal creations can be seen through a psychoanalytic lens as his way of coping with the PTSD he obtained when witnessing the annihilation of Dresden during the second world war in Germany.