Catch-22 has been canonized since its first modest print run of
30,000 copies. It spoke to the Vietnam generation in 1961 with its
savage, masculine humour and heartfelt indictment of the grotesque
lunacy of warfare. The eponymous Catch-22 states that a man can be
exempted from bombing missions if he is mad, but that the desire to
be exempted is proof that he is sane. (It would have crept into the
English language as Catch-18 but for Leon Uris's novel Mila 18 -
Heller wanted to avoid possible mix-ups.) The cavortings of Captain
Yossarian with officers, men and Roman prostitutes on the island of
Pianosa drive the plot as he desperately tries to reason his way
out of imminent death. (Kirkus UK)
At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.
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