个人简介

Joseph Heller was born in 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a bombardier in the Second World War, afterwards attending the colleges of New York University and Columbia University and then Oxford, the last on a Fullbright Scholarship. He then taught for two years at Pennsylvania State University, before returning to New York, where he began a successful career in the advertising departments of, progressively, Time, Look and McCall’s magazines. It was during this time that he had the idea for Catch-22. Working on the novel in spare moments and evenings at home, it took him eight years to complete and was first published in 1961. 　　His second novel, Something Happened, was published in 1974, Good as Gold in 1979, God Knows in 1984, and Closing Time in 1994. He is also the author of the play We Bombed in New Heaven. 　　Joseph Heller is a honorary fellow of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, to which he comes periodically and meets with students who are writing fiction. He lives in East Hampton, New York.

内容简介

At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.