With the event of firebombing in Dresden as the historical background, the novel relates the experiences of the hero, Billy Pilgrim. The writer expresses his attitude toward time, war, death and American society through this novel. 小说以德累斯顿大轰炸为历史背景,讲述了主人公毕利·皮尔格里姆的经历,表达了作者对时间、战争、死亡以及美国社会的看法。
Through the elaborate depiction about firebombing in Dresden and the trauma of the anti-hero, Billy Pilgrim, after the war, Vonnegut expressed his own significant anti-war themes: meaningless death and depletion of human dignity in wartimes. 通过对德累斯顿大轰炸和战后创伤的精心刻画,这部作品表达了其深刻的反战主题思想,以及对战争中毫无意义的死亡和人类尊严缺失的反思。