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Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened. "Something Happened" is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controversial second novel satirizing business life and American culture. The story is told as if the reader was overhearing the patter of Bob Slocum's brain -- recording what is going on at the office, as well as his fantasies and memories that complete the story of his life. The result is a novel as original and memorable as his "Catch-22."
Joseph Heller Joseph Heller’s debut novel Catch-22 will always be remembered as a brilliantly scathing indictment of war and one of the great absurdist comedies of 20th century American literature. However, it also created a painful catch-22 for its author at the expense of his subsequent works, which he would eventually explore in his final novel Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man.
Biography
Sometimes life traps you in an unfortunate situation that is impossible to escape from because of a set of inherently absurd rules. Take Joseph Heller, for example. The very first novel he published was among the most biting, powerful, hilarious examples of contemporary literature, a genuine classic of 1960s anti-war literature. Yet, Heller was forever trapped by that novel, unable to achieve similar success with his subsequent works no matter how fine they may have been. Both that painful predicament and that auspicious debut novel are known as Catch-22, and one hopes that an absurdist such as Joseph Heller had to at least appreciate that irony a little.
Catch-22 (1961) was somewhat based on Heller's own experiences as a B-25 bombadier in the Twelfth Air Force during World War II. It is the story of John Yossarian, a malingering bombardier stationed in Italy during the war. He lives in constant terror of being killed, so he flies each of his missions with the sole goal of returning alive. Unfortunately, Colonel Cathcart keeps increasing the number of missions he must undertake in order to complete his service. Yossarian's only way out is to prove that he is insane. Of course, the only way he can do that is to willingly take the most dangerous missions the air force has to offer. Yossarian's ridiculous, unwinnable situation is the Catch-22 from which the novel gets its name. Heller uses Yossarian's situation as a means to satirize and criticize the military and dehumanizing bureaucracies in general. The novel follows a disorienting logic of its own, owing more to Lewis Carroll's Wonderland than any war-themed novel before it. Consequently, Heller's unique approach to his subject had a deep influence on writers such as Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five) and Tom Robbins (Villa Incognito).
In 1970, Catch-22 was adapted into a star-studded feature film by director Mike Nichols (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ; The Graduate). Although many viewed the film as a disappointment, it had its fair share of highly inspired sequences, and in all fairness, the whimsical structure of the novel does not easily lend itself to the cinematic medium.
With a genuine classic on his hands, Heller then took his time producing his second novel. Something Happened did not appear until 1974, but it continued many of the themes present in Catch-22. This time around he directed his poison pen at the dehumanizing effects of the big-business world.
Heller's tangy blend of pessimism and humanism would be the driving force behind the majority of his work that followed, including Good as Gold, Closing Time (a sequel to Catch-22), and the play We Bombed New Haven. However, none of his subsequent efforts came close to matching the success or influence of Catch-22, a fact that irked Heller until his death. His final novel, the posthumously published Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man, explored this very theme as writer Eugene Pota struggles to decide upon a subject for his final novel.
Despite his own misgivings about his career, Joseph Heller will forever be remembered as a giant in American literature, even if it is only due to his first novel... and that's the kind of Catch-22 in which most writers would kill to be trapped.
Good To Know Heller often supplemented his income by taking screenwriting jobs. He worked on screenplays for the films Sex and the Single Girl and Casino Royale, and even worked on the television show McHale's Navy under the pseudonym "Max Orange." Heller's great abhorrence of war transcended his novels and plays. During the ‘60s, he was very involved in the movement against the war in Vietnam. Although Catch-22 is regarded as an American classic, it did not truly nab public attention until receiving glowing notices in Great Britain a year after its U.S. debut. Also Known As: Max Orange.
Date of Birth: May 1, 1923
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York
Date of Death: December 12, 1999
Place of Death: East Hampton, New York
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評分是因為購買瞭Vintage Minis係列裏的幾本小書,其中一本是Joseph Heller(不推薦,從Something Happened裏節選的一章而已。)翻齣壓箱底的這本,意外發現它非常好:雖然是中年白領喋喋不休的講述著scheme, strive, fear, flirting……但看到I know what would happen:nothing. Nothing would happen. And the knowledge depresses me. 你就明白生活裏處處是第二十二條軍規,不是嗎?
評分When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
評分When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
評分是因為購買瞭Vintage Minis係列裏的幾本小書,其中一本是Joseph Heller(不推薦,從Something Happened裏節選的一章而已。)翻齣壓箱底的這本,意外發現它非常好:雖然是中年白領喋喋不休的講述著scheme, strive, fear, flirting……但看到I know what would happen:nothing. Nothing would happen. And the knowledge depresses me. 你就明白生活裏處處是第二十二條軍規,不是嗎?
The company that made a movie out of Joseph Heller's first novel, "Catch-22," had to assemble what became the 11th or 12th largest bomber force on the planet at the time. If somebody wants to make a movie out of his second novel, "Something Happened," he ca...
評分《出事了》(Something Happened)是约瑟夫·海勒(Joseph Heller)的第二部长篇小说,初版于《第二十二条军规》问世13年后的1974年,据说甫一上市就得到了评论家们不亚于《第二十二条军规》的高度评价,但是在商业销售成绩上看,远远不如《军规》。 在为《第二十二条军规》着...
評分这本书在国内买不到,偶尔在大学的师哥转给我的。去年我花了三个月的时间读完了。很精彩。一定要读原文。
評分The company that made a movie out of Joseph Heller's first novel, "Catch-22," had to assemble what became the 11th or 12th largest bomber force on the planet at the time. If somebody wants to make a movie out of his second novel, "Something Happened," he ca...
評分《出事了》(Something Happened)是约瑟夫·海勒(Joseph Heller)的第二部长篇小说,初版于《第二十二条军规》问世13年后的1974年,据说甫一上市就得到了评论家们不亚于《第二十二条军规》的高度评价,但是在商业销售成绩上看,远远不如《军规》。 在为《第二十二条军规》着...
Something Happened pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024