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Catch 22 author5/12/2023 “ Catch-22 is a funny book-vulgarly, bitterly, savagely funny. Those who are interested may be reminded of the Voltaire who wrote Candide and of the Kafka who wrote The Trial. Heller’s story rises above mere realism and soars into the stratosphere of satire, grotesque exaggeration, fantasy, farce and sheer lunacy. In any case, it is one of the most startling first novels of the year and it may make its author famous … Catch-22 is realistic in its powerful accounts of bombing missions with men screaming and dying and planes crashing. Wildly original, brilliantly comic, brutally gruesome, it is a dazzling performance that will probably outrage nearly as many readers as it delights. But there can be no doubt that it is the strangest novel yet written about the United States Air Force in World War II. It is not even a good novel by conventional standards. “ Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, is not an entirely successful novel. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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