So, in a follow-up article published today, the Telegraph gave readers the chance to name the books they consider the best of all time. Fittingly, one of the most mentioned titles was Joseph Heller’s 1961 debut novel, Catch 22.
“Greatest satire since Erewhon,” one reader shared, while another leaned into criticism with, “The writer seems to ignore the American genre apart fromThe Great Gatsby. Read Catch-22 as a teenager and again decades later.”
View this post on InstagramCaught in a hopeless, paradoxical trap, Yossarian is at the mercy of the bureaucratic military rule known as "catch-22," which states that a pilot who asks to be grounded because he’s crazy is actually demonstrating rational concern for his safety, in turn proving he must be sane. In other words, the very act of trying to escape the rule proves that Yossarian doesn’t qualify for an escape.
Using dark humor and nonlinear storytelling, Heller exposes the madness and cold bureaucracy of war. But his at-times crude prose initially threw off some critics. Commercially, the response was mixed as well. Upon publication, it sold a modest 30,000, per The New York Times. However, the novel exploded in popularity in the U.K. and through word of mouth among U.S. college students.
The novel inspired several visual and theatrical adaptations, first with a feature film in 1970 directed by Mike Nichols and followed by a 1973 television pilot starring Richard Dreyfuss. More than four decades later, George Clooneybrought the story back to television in 2019.
Sixty-five years after its publication, Catch-22 remains as relevant as ever. Heller's fictional rule has become a phrase embedded in everyday language, while the novel itself continues to find new generations of readers.
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