约瑟夫·海勒(1923一),美国黑色幽默派代表作家,出生于纽约市布鲁克林一个犹太移民家庭。第二次世界大战期间曾任空军中尉。战后进大学学习,1948年毕业于纽约大学。1949年在哥伦比亚大学获文学硕士学位后,得到富布赖特研究基金赴英国牛津大学深造一年。1950到1952年在宾夕法尼亚州立大学等校任教。此后即离开学校,到《时代》和《展望》等杂志编辑部任职。1961年,长篇小说《第二十二条军规》问世,一举成名,当年即放弃职务,专门从事写作。
除《第二十二条军规》外,海勒还发表过长篇小说两部:《出了毛病》(1974)和《像高尔德一样好》(1979)。前者通过对美国中产阶级经理人员日常生活的描写,反映了他们苦闷、彷徨的精神世界;后者用诙谐嘲讽的笔法,通过一个试图涉足官场的犹太知识分子的生活经历,描绘了一幅有关美国政治、社会生活的讽刺画。海勒也曾写过剧本,如《我们轰炸了纽黑文》等,但影响不大。
海勒的小说取材于现实生活,通过艺术的哈哈镜和放大镜,反映了美国社会生活的若干侧面,具有一定的认识价值和审美价值。当然,他的作品也带有黑色幽默派文学的一些通病,如对社会现实流露出无可奈何的心情等。
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.
1、奥尔的逃离 成功只属于有准备的人,奥尔,一个大智若愚的人,精心的为了去瑞典做着努力,锻炼着每一项在去瑞典用的上的技能,包括吃生鳕鱼。每次执行任务都要把飞机沉在海上或者迫降,尽管技术非常好。终于有一天在精心的准备的迫降在海上后,坐在黄色的救生艇里,握着...
评分Joseph Heller最好的作品有三部,按出版顺序: 1. Catch-22 (第二十二条军规) 2. Something Happened (出事了) 3. God Knows (上帝知道) 这三部都有中文译本,而且豆瓣中都有。三部书都是黑色幽默,风格一致,分别拿战争、亲情和宗教三个及其严肃的话题开涮,这也是他的成功...
评分本人上的大学是准军事化管理,每天早上要穿皮鞋和制服变态晨跑。 很多人都知道,长期一起生活的女性,周期会慢慢调整到一样的时间。我们宿舍的女生某个月就很不幸的一起来了。 于是不能晨跑,一起站在甬道边看他们跑。 教官不相信我们四个能同时例假,要我们去医务室开个证明...
评分在看这本书之前,我就听说过它大名鼎鼎的“第二十二条军规”理论——根据第二十二条军规,只有疯子才能获准免于飞行,但必须由本人提出申请,但你一旦提出申请,恰好证明了你是一个正常人,还是在劫难逃。第二十二条军规还规定,飞行员飞满25架次就能回国,但它又说,你必须绝...
评分我看译林版的书相当多 但是好像除了《人都是要死的》《公众的怒火》《冠军早餐》等很有限的几本以外 几乎没有其他所谓“文学名著”了 大多数看的都是通俗畅销小说 一方面是自己生性疏懒不求上进就好低级趣味这一口 另一方面也是被译林的翻译质量倒了胃口 ——典型的就是《第二...
断断续续终于读完了。着实幽默,刚开始读的时候几乎每页都开怀大笑,后来感觉笑料有些重复,另外太太太长啦!
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评分绝对的好书!!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。
评分思辨性也太强了吧!
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