by Joseph Heller · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099552185
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«Catch-22» is Joseph Heller's satirical novel, published by Vintage in paperback (544 pages, in English).
In the final months of the Second World War, Captain Yossarian, a bomber in an American squadron in Italy, tries to survive while bureaucracy multiplies the missions. With black humour and a satirical tone, it portrays military madness and one ordinary man's determination to stay alive when thousands of strangers are trying to kill him.
First instalment of the «Catch-22» series. Vintage Classics edition of 2010 with an introduction by Howard Jacobson; originally published in 1961.
Suitable for reading groups and for those seeking classics of American literature with satire and black humour.
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.
