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 one of this century's greatest works of American literature. First published m 1961, Joseph Heller's profound and compelling novel has appeared on nearly every list of must read fiction. It is a classic in every sense of the word. "Catch-22" took the war novel genre to a new level, shocking us with its clever and disturbing style. Set in a World War II American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, "Catch-22" is the story of John Yossarian, who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. Yossarian is also trying to decode the meaning of Catch-22, a mysterious regulation that proves that insane people are really the sanest, while the supposedly sensible people are the true madmen. And this novel is full of madmen -- Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly m order to finish their tour; Milo Minderbinder, a dedicated entrepreneur who bombs his own airfield when the Germans offer him an extra 6 percent; Major Major Major, whose tragedy in life is that he resembles Henry Fonda; and Major -- de Coverley, whose face is so forbidding no one has dared ask his name. No novel before or since has matched "Catch-22's" intensity and brilliance in depicting the brutal insanity of war. Heller satirizes military bureaucracy with bitter, stinging humor, all the while telling the darkly comic story of Yossarian, a bombardier who refuses to die. Nearly forty years later, Yossarian lives.
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