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Summary
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Catch-22 is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. (He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attempt.)
Original title: Catch-22
Original languages:
English
Quotes: 3 (show them)
Genre: Fiction→ Historical→ World War II→ General
Fiction→ General Fiction→ Humor→ Satire
Fiction→ General Fiction→ Literary Fiction/classics
This work is excerpted in the following works :
Fiction of the Absurd (1980) [Anthology]
Authors: Franz Kafka
, Albert Camus
, Samuel Beckett
, Voltaire
, Joseph Heller
, Vladimir Nabokov
, Nikolai Gogol
, Ingeborg Bachmann
, Eugène Ionesco
, Tommaso Landolfi
, Flann O'Brien
, Daniil Kharms
, Witold Gombrowicz
, Juan Carlos Onetti
Notes:
- Dedication: "To Candida Donadio, literary agent, and Robert Gottlieb, editor. Colleagues."
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