JOURNAL ARTICLE

Joseph Heller at 100.

  • Published In: National Review, 2023, v. 75, n. 17. P. 42 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: TONGUETTE, PETER 3 of 3

Abstract

"That's some catch, that Catch-22", Yossarian says to Doc Daneeka, tacitly accepting what Heller calls the "spinning reasonableness" of the Catch-22 formulation. As he chronicled many of the great convulsions and catastrophes of the last century, the novelist Joseph Heller came to understand better than most that as often as human beings behave irrationally, they just as often present their behavior as being perfectly logical. Maybe that man was Heller himself, who, according to his biographer Tracy Daugherty, jotted down or typed countless Slocum-like thoughts, impressions, and lines over some 13 years - the heart of what became the novel. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:National Review. 2023/09, Vol. 75, Issue 17, p42
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0028-0038
  • Accession Number:170383495
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