Cette série satirique plonge dans le chaos absurde de la guerre et de la bureaucratie. Par le biais de règles arbitraires et de situations absurdes, elle explore la logique intenable de la vie militaire. Les personnages, souvent bizarres et désespérés, cherchent des moyens de survivre dans un monde régi par une logique qu'ils ne peuvent eux-mêmes comprendre. Ces récits soulignent les aspects comiques mais aussi tragiques de la nature humaine face à une absence totale de sens.
Features a satirical indicement of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. This work tells a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.
The previously uncollected writings of Joseph Heller, including hitherto unpublished stories, lost chapters from CATCH-22 and further tales from that novel's unforgettable 'hero', Yossarian.
Catch-22 was published in 1961, immediately becoming a classic. Now, 33 years later, Joseph Heller has written the sequel, revisting many of the characters, now older if not wiser, that made Catch-22 so unforgettable a novel.