Only one catch. (social influence of the book Catch 22)

Artforum International | October 1, 1994| | Copyright

According to the mad bureaucratic premise of Joseph Heller's World War II novel Catch-22, a bomber pilot--such as the book's antihero, John Yossarian--might be relieved from active duty by claiming insanity, were it not for the fact that the attempt to avoid further missions itself proved the pilot's sanity.

Part theater of the absurd, part Phil Silvers sitcom, Catch-22 added a concept to the American vernacular and a word to the dictionary: "a difficult situation or problem whose seemingly alternative solutions are logically invalid." Scarcely a week goes by when the phrase is ...

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