約瑟夫·海勒(1923一),美國黑色幽默派代錶作傢,齣生於紐約市布魯剋林一個猶太移民傢庭。第二次世界大戰期間曾任空軍中尉。戰後進大學學習,1948年畢業於紐約大學。1949年在哥倫比亞大學獲文學碩士學位後,得到富布賴特研究基金赴英國牛津大學深造一年。1950到1952年在賓夕法尼亞州立大學等校任教。此後即離開學校,到《時代》和《展望》等雜誌編輯部任職。1961年,長篇小說《第二十二條軍規》問世,一舉成名,當年即放棄職務,專門從事寫作。
除《第二十二條軍規》外,海勒還發錶過長篇小說兩部:《齣瞭毛病》(1974)和《像高爾德一樣好》(1979)。前者通過對美國中産階級經理人員日常生活的描寫,反映瞭他們苦悶、彷徨的精神世界;後者用詼諧嘲諷的筆法,通過一個試圖涉足官場的猶太知識分子的生活經曆,描繪瞭一幅有關美國政治、社會生活的諷刺畫。海勒也曾寫過劇本,如《我們轟炸瞭紐黑文》等,但影響不大。
海勒的小說取材於現實生活,通過藝術的哈哈鏡和放大鏡,反映瞭美國社會生活的若乾側麵,具有一定的認識價值和審美價值。當然,他的作品也帶有黑色幽默派文學的一些通病,如對社會現實流露齣無可奈何的心情等。
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.
第一次听Craig David的Johnny的时候注意到一句歌词“Caught a catch at 22”,误打误撞知道了一个词叫做“catch-22”,然后,知道了创造出这个具有划时代意义词语的人,Joseph Heller,一个把黑色幽默传递给大家的又一巨人。 啥是“第二十二条军规”?这东西主角约塞连压根就...
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評分在看这本书之前,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...
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評分生命不过是一个荒诞的玩笑。刘晓波曾说,一场文革,够写10部《第22条军规》,可我们一部都写不出来。尽管足够荒诞,但我们缺乏面对荒诞的勇气,更缺乏用微笑嘲弄死亡的心智。
拼圖一樣的故事,看到最後纔能拍手叫好
评分前三十章反復顛倒的噩夢和囈語,都是為瞭最後十一章的反抗和爆發。
评分戰爭的荒謬與怪誕
评分read it years ago
评分全是瘋子
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