Catch-22


Catch-22
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Description: 0 0 Amazon.com Review 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. 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. As ... (more)
Manufacturer : Simon & Schuster
Release date : 4 September 1996
ISBN-10 : 0684833395 | ISBN-13: 9780684833392
Fiction (9), Satire (7), War (6), Dark-humour (3), WWII (3), Military (3), American Literature (2), Literature (2), Dark (2), Bureaucracy (2), Funny (2), Hysterical (2), US (2), Comedy (2), 1960's (2), 20th Century (2), Absurd (2), To-read (2), History (2), U (1)
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"Heller initially wanted Catch-18 as the novel's title because the number means "alive" in Gematria, the traditional Jewish system of assigning numerical value to a word or phrase. But before the book was published, Heller's agent, Candida Donadio, requested that he change it to avoid confusion with the Leon Uris novel Mila 18. Catch-17 was also rejected because it was considered too similar to Billy Wilder's film Stalag 17. Heller then suggested Catch-11 (the double number symbolizing deja-vu"


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"The very definition of "subversive"; Heller sets his sights (and astonishing wit) on the horrors of war, and makes the funniest damn thing ever. Rather than a plot, "Cath-22" is comprised of series of episodes set in nonlinear order, and every one of those episodes is wonderful. I've never laughed harder than I have the alfalfa farmer who made his living not growing alfalfa. When it wants to be, though, it can show the tragedy of war (and of humanity as a whole, for that matter) in a very poigna"


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