Catch-22 Author: Joseph Heller Publisher: Yilin Press

According to Catch-22, only a madman can be exempted from flying missions, but he must apply for it himself; and the person who can apply for it must not be crazy, so he still has to fly. The protagonist of "Catch-22", Yossarian, is an American bomber in World War II. Catch-22 forces him to survive on the line between life and death. At the same time, he also finds that the world is full of such absurd traps. Today, Catch-22 has become an idiom in English, referring to logic that seems to make sense but is actually crazy and absurd. Catch-22 is synonymous with institutionalized madness. This is an eternal question for human society: In a crazy world, who is the madman?