Catch 22
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Roman, spelend op een Amerikaanse luchtmachtbasis tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, waarin felle kritiek wordt geuit op de absurditeit van de oorlog en het militarisme.
Catch-22 Reeks
Deze satirische serie duikt in de absurde chaos van oorlog en bureaucratie. Door middel van willekeurige regels en onzinnige situaties onderzoekt het de onhoudbare logica van het militaire leven. De personages, vaak bizar en wanhopig, zoeken naar manieren om te overleven in een wereld die wordt beheerst door een logica die ze zelf niet kunnen bevatten. Deze verhalen belichten de komische maar ook tragische aspecten van de menselijke natuur wanneer deze wordt geconfronteerd met totale zinloosheid.
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Catch As Catch Can
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Not many writers introduce a phrase – let alone a whole idea – into the language. In Catch-22, Joseph Heller invented a motif for the modern world. The book shaped everything that came after it, establishing Heller's reputation as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. But where did the author who was able to create that novel come from? And what happened to those remarkable characters? In Catch as Catch Can, Joseph Heller’s stories are collected for the first time, and clearly chart the development of a genius. From Heller's recollections of his Coney Island childhood to the later stories of his greatest creation, Yossarian, Catch as Catch Can is the last great work of one of the twentieth century's most important literary figures
Catch-22: Closing Time
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A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22 . In Closing Time, Joseph Heller returns to the characters of Catch-22, now coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II: Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and such newcomers as little Sammy Singer and giant Lew, all linked, in an uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End. Closing Time deftly satirizes the realities and the myths of America in the half century since WWII: the absurdity of our politics, the decline of our society and our great cities, the greed and hypocrisy of our business and culture -- with the same ferocious humor as Catch-22. Closing Time is outrageously funny and totally serious, and as brilliant and successful as Catch-22 itself, a fun-house mirror that captures, at once grotesquely and accurately, the truth about ourselves.