by Joseph Heller · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099477310
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«Catch-22» is Joseph Heller's war satire novel, published by Vintage in paperback (576 pages, in English).
The action takes place in the final months of the Second World War, in an American bomber squadron on the coast of Italy. Its protagonist, Captain Yossarian, tries to survive an absurd war and the bureaucratic logic that traps him; the novel combines black humour and denunciation of military irrationality.
First instalment of the «Catch-22» series; originally published in 1961, this edition includes an author's preface.
For readers of modern classics and black humour, interested in military satire and the Second World War.
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.
