Catch-22
Joseph Heller's 1961 satirical war novel about bombardier Yossarian and the absurdity of military life in the Second World War.
Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by Joseph Heller, his debut, published in 1961. It follows Captain John Yossarian, a bombardier with a US Army Air Forces squadron based on the island of Pianosa between 1942 and 1944, and satirizes military bureaucracy and greed. It was adapted into a 1970 film directed by Mike Nichols. Yan Lianke picks it in The Week. Simon & Schuster published this 523-page paperback in 2011.
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Yan Lianke
The feeling I describe derives from the work's passionate indictment of humanity's pretenses to justice and nobility.
Article · November 2016
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