Joseph Heller Catch-22 recensie en informatie roman uit 1961 over de Tweede Wereldoorlog van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Catch-22 van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Joseph Heller. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft ook Catch-22 als titel. Het boek is door onze redactie gewaardeerd met ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend).
Joseph Heller Catch-22 recensie, review en informatie
- “The greatest satirical work in the English language.” (The Observer)
- “The most devastating satire ever written about the lunacy of war and military bureaucracy.” (Antony Beevor)
Catch-22
- Auteur: Joseph Heller (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse oorlogsroman uit 1961
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Vintage Classics
- Omvang: 544 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: £ 18,99 / £ 9,99
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de oorlogsroman van Joseph Heller
Discover Joseph Heller’s hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man’s efforts to survive it.
It’s the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never been closer to death. Stationed in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, each flight mission introduces him to thousands of people determined to kill him.
But the enemy above is not Yossarian’s problem – it is his own army intent on keeping him airborne, and the maddening ‘Catch-22’ that allows for no possibility of escape.
Joseph Heller was born on 1 May 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a bombardier in the Second World War and then attended 
New York University and Columbia University and then Oxford, the last on a Fullbright scholarship. He then taught for two years at Pennsylvania State University, before returning to New York, where he began a successful career in the advertising departments of Time, Look and McCall’s magazines. It was during this time that he had the idea for Catch-22. Working on the novel in spare moments and evenings at home, it took him eight years to complete and was first published in 1961. His second novel, Something Happened was published in 1974, Good As Gold in 1979 and Closing Time in 1994. He is also the author of the play We Bombed in New Haven. He died 12 December 1999 in at the age of 76 in East Hampton, New York.