Once the contemporaneity of the 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five by American writer Kurt
Vonnegut is established, the text outlines the narrative strategies, the stylistic preferences and
the peculiar techniques of wording that, together, build up the author’s distinctive individual
style nowadays so frequently associated to him. The study also highlights his incomparable
sense of humor, his sagacity and satiric wit, as the foremost elements of creation that provide
unique hue to his stories. Finally, metatextual instances are selected for investigation as well as
his atypical fictional technique referred here as space-temporal dislocation.
