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Catch-22 (Hardcover) Author: Joseph Heller Publisher: Yilin Press
Catch-22 (Hardcover) Author: Joseph Heller Publisher: Yilin Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
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?
About the Author · · · · · ·
Joseph Heller
Born in 1923 into a poor Russian Jewish family in New York, he had a talent for language and a love of writing. One year after graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School, he worked as a blacksmith apprentice, messenger and clerk. The writer, who claimed that "through in-depth and thorough self-examination, I found that I was not suitable for the army", joined the army in 1942 and joined the US Air Force to the Italian front, completing 60 combat missions in a B-25 bomber. After the war, Heller studied language at the University of Southern California and New York University, and later obtained a master's degree from Columbia University. In 1961, "Catch-22" was published. At first, the market response was mediocre, but with the rise of the anti-war movement in the United States, it resonated strongly with the public and quickly became a best-selling novel. "Catch-22" has never won any awards, but it has become one of the best-selling novels in the world. In 1977, Heller was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In his later years, he suffered from illness and died of a heart attack at home in 1999. After "Catch-22" was translated into Chinese, it received a huge response, and a group of writers including Wang Shuo, Ma Yuan, Wang Xiaobo, and Liu Sola were all influenced by it.
