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Long before there was a Catch-22, before there was even a Catch-18 (the novel's original title), Joseph Heller had begun sharpening his skills as a writer, searching for the voice that would best express the peculiarly wry view that he held of the world. Starting in 1945, with the publication in Story magazine of the short story "I Don't Love You Anymore," Heller began to reach out to an audience of readers damaged and disillusioned by their experiences...
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In this book, Merrill discusses the structure and theme of every Heller novel and play, and offers a number of original interpretations of Heller's writing. Merrill argues that too much has been made of the Jewishness of the two more recent novels, Good as Gold and God Knows. He adds that they are better understood as humanistic rather than sectarian novels. Merrill sees Heller as an isolated artist who has been influenced by few earlier writers and...
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Joseph Heller was a Coney Island kid in New York, the son of Russian immigrants, who went on to great fame and fortune. His most memorable novel took its inspiration from a mission he flew over France in WWII when his plane was filled with so much shrapnel it was a wonder it stayed in the air. Altogether, Heller wrote seven novels, all of which remain in print. Something Happened and Good as Gold, to name two, are still considered the epitome of satire....
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While most studies of Joseph Heller focus on his two primary works, Catch-22 and Something Happened, Tilting at Mortality considers Heller's entire career, including his latest work, Closing Time. David Craig pursues two complementary tracks: first, he explores the evolution of Heller's essential subject, human mortality; and second, he delineates Heller's artistic development as a novelist. Mortality - in particular the death of children or, alternatively,...
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A study of Heller's 1961 novel, "Catch-22", with critical commentary and an analysis of the text.
The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. It mainly follows the life of antihero Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th US Army Air Squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea west of Italy, though it also covers episodes from...
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Mellard posits a Hegelian progression to literary history, and particularly to the literary history of the last 40 years. For him, thesis/antithesis/synthesis is roughly parallel to naive/critical/sophisticated and he uses works by William Faulkner, Joseph Heller, and Richard Brautigan as examples of each phase.
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