约瑟夫·海勒(1923一),美国黑色幽默派代表作家,出生于纽约市布鲁克林一个犹太移民家庭。第二次世界大战期间曾任空军中尉。战后进大学学习,1948年毕业于纽约大学。1949年在哥伦比亚大学获文学硕士学位后,得到富布赖特研究基金赴英国牛津大学深造一年。1950到1952年在宾夕法尼亚州立大学等校任教。此后即离开学校,到《时代》和《展望》等杂志编辑部任职。1961年,长篇小说《第二十二条军规》问世,一举成名,当年即放弃职务,专门从事写作。
除《第二十二条军规》外,海勒还发表过长篇小说两部:《出了毛病》(1974)和《像高尔德一样好》(1979)。前者通过对美国中产阶级经理人员日常生活的描写,反映了他们苦闷、彷徨的精神世界;后者用诙谐嘲讽的笔法,通过一个试图涉足官场的犹太知识分子的生活经历,描绘了一幅有关美国政治、社会生活的讽刺画。海勒也曾写过剧本,如《我们轰炸了纽黑文》等,但影响不大。
海勒的小说取材于现实生活,通过艺术的哈哈镜和放大镜,反映了美国社会生活的若干侧面,具有一定的认识价值和审美价值。当然,他的作品也带有黑色幽默派文学的一些通病,如对社会现实流露出无可奈何的心情等。
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.
There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it's impossible not to consider Catch-22 to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel's undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Heller's characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense.
Yossarian says, "You're talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive."
"Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?"
"To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
"I can't think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy."
"The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
Mirabile dictu, the book holds up post-Reagan, post-Gulf War. It's a good thing, too. As long as there's a military, that engine of lethal authority, Catch-22 will shine as a handbook for smart-alecky pacifists. It's an utterly serious and sad, but damn funny book.
Joseph Heller最好的作品有三部,按出版顺序: 1. Catch-22 (第二十二条军规) 2. Something Happened (出事了) 3. God Knows (上帝知道) 这三部都有中文译本,而且豆瓣中都有。三部书都是黑色幽默,风格一致,分别拿战争、亲情和宗教三个及其严肃的话题开涮,这也是他的成功...
评分这是一本从我十四岁起就在“要读”的清单上的书。晚了二十年,恰逢其时。只有今天才能读懂这么复杂的感情吧?加上卡帕的《失焦》,海明威的《永别了武器》,才能体会那个带着嘲讽蔑视的笑里,有多少悲怆和爱国主义吧。哦,还有那个因为太爱美国而做了加拿大人的John Irving. ...
评分《不管三七二十一》 -再讀約瑟夫•海勒的《第二十二条軍規》 假如漫長歷史與浩瀚地理可以合一;假如生於大明萬歷卒於大清順治後來被譽為話本小說、戲曲、民謠皆獨具成就的文學家-蘇州人馮夢龍,與紐約布魯克林區的猶太移民後裔、二戰時期的美國空軍中尉後來成了美國黑色幽...
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funny as hell, sad as hell
评分read it years ago
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评分funny as hell, sad as hell
评分绝对的好书!!我们要赢得这场战争,但是我只想活下去。这是本随便翻开一页都可以看的书,没有观点只有玩笑。差不多四个半的小时阅读,我丝毫不觉时间的流逝,书中的世界让我着迷的同时让我心寒。阅读关键字:黑色幽默,讽刺。
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