by Joseph Heller · Dell · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552015004
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«Catch-22» is Joseph Heller's satirical novel, published by Dell in paperback (569 pages, in English).
During the Second World War, Captain John Yossarian, an American bomber pilot on the island of Pianosa, tries to avoid combat missions. The work gives its name to the bureaucratic trap that catches him: asking to be relieved on grounds of insanity is taken as proof of sanity. Heller uses absurd humour and anti-war satire, with a non-linear structure.
«Catch-22» was originally published in 1961, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962, and is the first instalment of the Catch-22 series.
For readers of literary and war fiction, and of mid-twentieth-century American classics.
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.
