This 1961 novel by Joseph Heller, and the 1970 film directed by Mike Nichols, represented one of the most important literary and film works of the 20th century.
Published more than 60 years ago Heller's satirical work about the futility of war continues to ring-true today.
The setting is the second world war and highlights the actions of Captain John Yossarian in a fictional US Army Air Squadron. Yossarian is a bombardier and desperately attempts to be certified insane so he can go home.
Heller's book contains any number of thought-provoking discussions memorable quotes.
Including this timeless gem....
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains t all. It merely required no character.
- Catch-22
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