"And which do you think is more important?" Yossarian says, "You're talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive." Again and again, Heller's characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad what is sensible, is nonsense. But 40 years on, the novel's undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. As a result, it's impossible not to consider Catch-22 to be something of a period piece. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature. This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction by Christopher Buckley a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others rare papers and photos from Joseph Heller’s personal archive and much more. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. But his real problem is not the enemy-it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. In recent years it has been named to “best novels” lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer.
Soon to be a Hulu limited series starring Christopher Abbott, George Clooney, Kyle Chandler, and Hugh Laurie.įifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest-and most celebrated-books of all time. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others rare papers and photos and much more.
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