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Plot :
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..
Language - English
Format 1 - Epub
Format 2 - Mobi
Size - 1.17 MB
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