by Joseph Heller · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099536017
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«Catch-22» is Joseph Heller's satirical novel, published by Vintage in paperback (569 pages, in English).
The story follows Captain John Yossarian, a bomber in the US Army Air Forces during World War II, stationed on the island of Pianosa. As his superiors endlessly increase the missions, Yossarian tries to be declared insane so he can be relieved, but the bureaucratic trap of the «Catch-22» turns sanity into a death sentence. A satire with black humor about war, power and alienation.
Vintage edition with an introduction by the author and the mention «As recommended on BBC2’s Between the Covers».
For readers looking for a classic of twentieth-century satirical literature and war fiction, with a critical view of bureaucracy.
Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is his debut novel Catch-22 (1961), a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature at least twice, in 1972 and 1975.
