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Formal Experiment and Social Discontent: Joseph Heller's Catch-22

1968; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 2; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s002187580001121x

1469-5154

Brian Way,

Literature and Cultural Memory

Joseph Heller's brilliant first novel, Catch-22 , has the power to transform American literature, to re-invigorate a fiction which, since 1955, has tended to work over, with declining vitality, the formulae of earlier years. He combines an experimental attitude towards formal problems with a fully contemporary sense of what it means for a writer to be a radical in the current phase of American culture.