Catch-22
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Literature
James Mustich
Aug 8, 2018
The title of Joseph Heller’s first novel has become—aptly enough—a catchphrase, common parlance for the kind of double bind that bureaucracies breed with astonishing fecundity. Captain John Yossarian, the protagonist of Heller’s pioneering and influential satire, is “moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity” of the “spinning reasonableness” that Catch-22 expressed: “There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art.” From those parts Heller spins a novel of mordant originality, exposing the obscenity of war via a blackly comic machinery that is fueled by Yossarian’s attempts to escape its horror.
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Mary Balsano Colombini Morgan
Oct 30, 2018
One of the few books on my high school reading list that I enjoyed.
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Ronald
Apr 7, 2019
Absurd and foundational. Well worth a read.
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Len Blasiol
May 18, 2019
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Debra Hanff
May 23, 2020
It's just a classic of black, political, insane humour.
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Jane Huttner
Jul 19, 2020
I really liked it. It was very funny in many spots. It made me laugh out loud. Well worth to read and listen to.
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Jane Huttner
Aug 20, 2020
I read "Closing TIme." I liked Catch-22 much better than the sequel.
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Chéri Riley
Feb 22, 2021
A classic from English class!
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Nicole
Oct 29, 2023
One of my favourite reading experiences ever. I want to reread this but worried it will ruin my love for it!
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