Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. But his real problem is not the enemy-it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him.
In recent years it has been named to “best novels” lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer. First edition second impression from 1962 in near fine condition, no internal markings, pages clean, binding firm, there is minor scuffing and a 2cm closed. In the course of this paper I will show that Catch-22 belongs to the Literature. The work centres on Captain John Yossarian, an American bombardier stationed on a Mediterranean island during World War II, and chronicles his desperate attempts to stay alive. Its humor, I think, is essentially masculine. Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest-and most celebrated-books of all time. The topic of this research paper is the absurd in Joseph Hellers Catch-22. Catch-22, satirical novel by American writer Joseph Heller, published in 1961. Catch-22 is a funny book-vulgarly, bitterly, savagely funny.
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