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发表于2024-11-05
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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.
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。
i don't know what to say, it's just so overwhelming!!! definitely going to reread!
评分前三十章反复颠倒的噩梦和呓语,都是为了最后十一章的反抗和爆发。
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。
评分拼图一样的故事,看到最后才能拍手叫好
评分the book of my love.
这是一部震撼人心的小说. 无论从内容, 风格, 语言等角度来说, 都突破了以前小说写作的规矩. 开创了一个全新的小说写作派别: 荒诞派; 和一种全新的文学表达方式:黑色幽默文学. 我想作者约瑟夫.海勒当初并不是想以树立一个新文学派别为目的来写他这部著作的, 他只不过发现这是唯...
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...
评分在一个等级和强权的社会里,他人是一个可怖的地狱。 这样的强权需要靠一定的标志和环境来维持,例如上级的制服、军队的制度。在罗马,邓巴扔掉了几个军官的衣服,那将军说“我们的制服也扔了?那可真聪明。没有制服,我们永远无法让人相信我们是上级。”(p423) 没有等级和...
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...
评分有关《第二十二条军规》的一些阅读笔记 文字/梁坏坏 0. 注意你身体上的小红点。 不知道什么原因,大腿外侧靠近臀部的位置鼓起了一个大包,可能刚开始也就是一个小红点,这个小红点根本不会让人去注意它的,它就在你不注意的时候,渐渐长大,最后有拳头那么大,影...
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