The ability to think both rationally and irrationally is simultaneously a blessing and a curse for the human race. In the satirical novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, this bittersweet power to reason and think logically proves to be the source of conflict for the protagonist,…
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by Joseph Heller
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Joseph Heller
United States
English
Dark comedy, absurdist fiction, satire, war fiction, historical fiction
November 10, 1961
John “Yo-Yo” Yossarian, Chaplain Tappman, Doc Daneeka, Chief White Halfoat and Flume, Aarfy, Nately’s Whore and her kid sister, Milo Minderbinder, Colonel Cathcart, Colonel Korn, Generals Dreedle and Peckem, Major Major, Dunbar, Snowden, Orr, Major Danby
The story is based on Joseph Heller's personal experience in World War II.