by Joseph Heller · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783436013554
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«Catch-22» is Joseph Heller's satirical novel, published by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (442 pages, in German).
In the midst of World War II, Captain John Yossarian, a US Army Air Forces bombardier, tries to be declared insane to avoid flying more missions. The catch-22 rule states that requesting that exemption proves sanity, so he cannot obtain it. Heller uses black humor and satire to portray military bureaucracy and the absurdity of war.
First installment of the Catch-22 series; originally published in 1961 and a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962.
For readers with a command of German who want to discover a classic of war satire and absurd humor.
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.
