Through Kurt Vonnegut's Eyes

The Bombing of Dresden occurred in World War II, when the British and the United States bombed Dresden because of allied forces against the Germans.

Kurt Vonnegut as a good author, writes about this horrid attack and his own perspective about what he saw.

He starts somehow introducing the act, and what it took for him to start suck a tragedy. He talks very personally, so automatically there is a very tight relationship between the reader and the author. The fact that Vonnegut made a book about this incident in Dresden makes him stand out a lot, because most of the people after the war, were completely horrified and decided to remember those who died. But actually, Vonnegut brought them to life.

I enjoyed very much reading the first 5 pages, where he tells how hard it was to start this book. He wanted very badly to write a book about Dresden (I mean, it is really a good story), he just didn't know what to say.

I noticed he re-affirms too much what he says. For example "I really did go back to Dresden with Guggenheim money." He repeats as well a lot the "Yon Yonson" rhyme. I can't tell yet why he does what he does, but I carve the book to understand his reasons.

"At the time they were teaching there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still." I found this quote rather funny, it shows his sense of humor which is somehow hidden because of the tenacity of the topic. It also shows human ambition and mediocrity, people can't choose to believe other things than those they are told.

I like the fact that Vonnegut is so direct. When he mentions what people do after a massacre, saying there is nothing intelligent to say after such thing. No one else would say that, because supposedly after events like those, there are only memorials and holidays.

Not much to say with twenty pages, but his frivolity, analysis and different thinking.