![]() ![]() (Photo: An early edition of Joseph Heller’s novel Catch 22. ![]() Credit: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images) Produced by Anne Khazam for the BBC World Service. With the contribution of Patricia Chapman Meder, the author of The True Story of Catch-22, whose father was the inspiration for Colonel Cathcart, Heller’s commander who kept increasing the number of flight missions. So, what is the secret of its success? Bridget Kendall is joined by the American novelist and friend of Joseph Heller, Christopher Buckley Dr Beci Carver, lecturer in 20th century literature at Exeter University, whose forthcoming book is Modernism’s Whims and Tracy Daugherty, author of Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller, and Emeritus Professor at Oregon State University in the US. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books. It’s a novel that’s sold tens of millions of copies, and it continues to engage new readers. Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn in 1923. Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Since its publication in 1961, Catch-22, Joseph Heller’s best-selling novel, has not only come to symbolise the cynical self-serving aspect of war run as a business, but also the way an ordinary person can be trapped and controlled by bureaucracy and social rules, in whatever area of life. It’s a novel that gave rise to a new term in the English language and gave voice to American soldiers serving in Vietnam in the 1960s. ![]()
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