Two of my favorite authors, J. D. Salinger and Kurt Vonnegut, suffered through searing violence and carnage in World War II, and neither of them talked of their experiences openly. Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Salinger's A Perfect Day for Bananafish are both heavily couched in metaphor.
I wonder if it was because they couldn't speak of what happened to them, or because the audience was not prepared to hear it?
maybe both.
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