Joseph Heller's Catch-22: A novel of twisted logic and absurd bureaucracy
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Catch 22 Is a Novel About the Absurdity of War and Bureaucracy
The great irony for me in catch 22 is that it's a novel that one might have expected to come out of viet nam, which was, in the end, an absurd and tragic war. The enemy was hitler. This was the good war. And in that sense, for all its absurd aspects, perhaps at the level of nonsense that joe explores so wonderfully, it was also worth fighting. So the irony to me is that the novel that most exquisitely portrays the fundamental tragedy of war Is a novel that came out of a good and necessary war.
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