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Understanding Joseph Heller

Understanding Joseph Heller

Pinsker, Sanford

Paperback

Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1570038406
ISBN13: 9781570038402
Publisher: Univ Of South Carolina Pr
Published: Aug 1 2009
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
To add a significant phrase to our language is no easy feat, but that is precisely what Joseph Heller (1923-1999) did with catch-22, the principle of absurdist logic and bureaucratic foul-up that energized his debut novel, Catch-22, in 1961. In this revised edition of Understanding Joseph Heller, Sanford Pinsker explores the idiosyncratic vision that permeates Heller's complete body of work, as he maps the dark terrain Heller carved out, novel by novel, with considerable verbal dazzle and the uncompromising outrage of the classical satirist. This updated edition includes new chapters on Closing Time, the sequel to Catch-22; Now and Then, Heller's memoir of growing up in Brooklyn; Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man, his posthumously published novel; and Catch as Catch Can, a collection of assorted short stories and sketches.

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