出版社: Prentice Hall & IBD
出版年: 1996-9-4
页数: 463
定价: USD 16.00
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780684833392
内容简介 · · · · · ·
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.
At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understan...
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.
At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he furiously scrambles, thousands of people he hasn't even met are trying to kill him. His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions that he is committed to flying, he is trapped by the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade, the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule from which the book takes its title: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.
Catch-22 is a microcosm of the twentieth-century world as it might look to some one dangerously sane -- a masterpiece of our time.
There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it's impossible not to consider Catch-22 to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel's undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Heller's characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense.
Yossarian says, "You're talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive."
"Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?"
"To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
"I can't think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy."
"The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
Mirabile dictu, the book holds up post-Reagan, post-Gulf War. It's a good thing, too. As long as there's a military, that engine of lethal authority, Catch-22 will shine as a handbook for smart-alecky pacifists. It's an utterly serious and sad, but damn funny book.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
约瑟夫•海勒(1923—1999),美国黑色幽默派和荒诞派代表作家。二战期间曾任空军中尉,执行过60次飞行任务,战后入纽约大学学文学。他根据自己的参战经历创作成长篇《第二十二条军规》,引起巨大轰动,使他跻身美国一流作家之列。此外,他还著有《出事了》、《像高尔德一样好》、《上帝知道》等小说。
约瑟夫•海勒的作品上世纪80年代后译介到国内,反响巨大,王朔、马原、王小波、刘索拉等一批作家皆受其影响。
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3 有用 虚弱橙 2009-05-08 16:16:29
非常好的叽喳 读到后来柳暗花明 豁然开朗
0 有用 正在看牡丹 2008-05-08 20:28:36
全是疯子
0 有用 e. 2008-02-24 00:38:20
英文学习
4 有用 我算哪块小饼干 2011-08-18 09:21:33
绝对的好书!!我们要赢得这场战争,但是我只想活下去。这是本随便翻开一页都可以看的书,没有观点只有玩笑。差不多四个半的小时阅读,我丝毫不觉时间的流逝,书中的世界让我着迷的同时让我心寒。阅读关键字:黑色幽默,讽刺。
0 有用 万泉河名媛 2009-02-08 20:04:10
funny as hell, sad as hell
0 有用 HowTalentedIAm 2022-12-14 14:44:49 广东
四个四重奏:社恐军官Major Major Major Major;Milo在这套体系里如鱼得水;Cathcart的bureaucracy和illiteracy;黑色幽默的扛鼎之作。
0 有用 sdomhtte 2022-09-21 14:25:53 云南
轰炸友军,荒诞不羁,却又理所应当的一幕。真感谢祖国是社会主义国家,所以金钱没有腐化中国人的精神。
0 有用 君 2022-08-04 03:01:20
当没有人在乎的时候,就应该去他妈的。真的是20世纪最好的几本书之一,全文没品笑话,milo就是神;如果Snowden真的发生,我们都应该赤身裸体领取学位和奖章;但怎么会有这么伤感的小说,怎么会有这样热烈的结局;catch-22的俗语简直是对此书最大的误导(除了确有其事),我真的很难想象自己能记住这么多莫名其妙的人,但我记住了。祝所有错过了orr的人最终都能躲过nately‘s whore的追杀
0 有用 K. 2022-07-03 00:27:13
结尾扣分。
0 有用 荒小原 2022-05-11 10:42:14
阅读体验非常好 文字毫不晦涩 处处透着幽默 然而到最后却有种心里堵住的感觉