eBook, 650 pages
Russian language
Published Sept. 14, 2015 by АСТ.
Прошло полвека со времени первой публикации, но «Поправка-22» по-прежнему остается краеугольным камнем американской литературы и одной из самых знаменитых книг всех времен. «Time», «Newsweek», «Modern Library», «London Observer» включили ее в списки «лучших романов», а в списке «200 лучших книг по версии BBC» она занимает 11-е место.
Эта оригинальная история о службе летчиков ВВС США в период Второй мировой войны полна несуразных ситуаций, не менее несуразных смешных диалогов, безумных персонажей и абсурдных бюрократических коллизий, связанных с некой не существующей на бумаге, но от этого не менее действенной «поправкой-22» в законе, гласящей о том, что «всякий, кто хочет уклониться от боевого задания, нормален и, следовательно, годен к строевой»…
Это произведение сложно назвать просто антивоенным романом. Это глубокая, всеобъемлющая сатира на нашу повседневность, образ жизни и принципы «цивилизованного» общества…
Interesante, aunque acusa el paso del tiempo. Caótico, variopinto. No salen las mujeres muy bien paradas (no lo estaban en ese tiempo).
I decided it was finally time to read Catch-22 so I could get the cultural references that come up from time to time. I couldn't finish it.
In each chapter, we meet some odd characters with odd names that are probably supposed to make the reader laugh. We encounter some kind of circular logic. We have an absurd situation. And nothing really changes, and then we move onto the next chapter with new odd-named characters, new circular logic, new absurdities. 8 chapters into the book I skimmed through the chapter titles, which are nearly all odd character names, and realized it was likely going to be the same pattern again and again. The problem is that I wasn't entertained, and so in the middle of my 8th mission I decided that it just wasn't worth it and deserted. I won't make it to 42 missions.
Repetition to drive home a …
I decided it was finally time to read Catch-22 so I could get the cultural references that come up from time to time. I couldn't finish it.
In each chapter, we meet some odd characters with odd names that are probably supposed to make the reader laugh. We encounter some kind of circular logic. We have an absurd situation. And nothing really changes, and then we move onto the next chapter with new odd-named characters, new circular logic, new absurdities. 8 chapters into the book I skimmed through the chapter titles, which are nearly all odd character names, and realized it was likely going to be the same pattern again and again. The problem is that I wasn't entertained, and so in the middle of my 8th mission I decided that it just wasn't worth it and deserted. I won't make it to 42 missions.
Repetition to drive home a point can be very effective. It seems that a lot of people have been entertained by Heller's writing. I wasn't, so I couldn't deal with the monotony. Heller, I think, wanted to show us the absurdity of the military in a time when we were still feeling good about the military after WWII. It was a bold thing to do, and the success of the novel shows it was effective for a lot of people. I appreciate the idea behind the novel, the execution just didn't work for me at all.
