Humanistic Spirit Behind the Postmodern Narrative Strategies of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

In Slaughterhouse -Five, Kurt Vonnegut stimulates open thinking by rebuilding the fantastic world with characteristics of postmodern art. Particularly, he uses various postmodern narrative strategies as repetition, parody, collage, and montage, etc., with the purpose of breaking the traditional narrative model. Finally, through analyzing t he unique narrative perspective and techniques, we can find the novel vividly and forcefully reveals the absurd reality of society, as well as Vonnegut 's deep humanistic concern, which exists behind the seemingly ridiculous narration.