Joseph Heller

Un clásico moderno absolutamente rompedor sobre el sinsentido de la guerra en una nueva edición con prólogo de Laura Fernández. Trampa-22 es uno de los mejores libros del siglo xx y ha sido recientemente adaptado como miniserie televisiva protagonizada por George Clooney y Christopher Abott. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en el hospital de la base norteamericana de una minuscula isla italiana, un piloto de bombardero llamado Yossarian finge estar loco. Quiere evitar a toda costa perder la vida en su proxima mision aerea y regresar a casa. ¿Por que demonios intentan todos matarle desde abajo?, se pregunta cada vez que lanza una bomba. Yossarian intenta demostrar que esta loco pero cae en la trampa 22: una absurda y perversa regla militar que afirma que aquellos que alegan locura para no ir a la guerra son los mas cuerdos. Y si estas cuerdo, estas sano, asi que... ¡no te queda otra! Publicada originalmente en 1961, Trampa 22 es sin lugar a dudas una de las obras maestras mas divertidas y celebradas de todos los tiempos y una piedra angular de la tradicion literaria norteamericana, que le ha valido estar en las listas de los mejores libros del siglo xx. El lector se sumergira en una rafaga de situaciones absurdas y dialogos delirantes que subrayan la estupidez de la guerra y del ser humano. Y es que el infierno somos, y hemos sido siempre, nosotros, apunta Laura Fernandez en el prologo. Si iba a describir un infierno, seria uno rabiosamente divertido. Porque asi de ridiculo es el mundo. [...] para que esta humanidad trate de aprender algo de si misma.Criticas:No hay ningun libro como este [...] sorprendentemente poderoso.Norman Mailer, Esquire Trampa 22 es la unica novela belica que he leido que tiene sentido.Harper Lee Novela bomba [...]. Heller no solo descubrio "el lado gracioso" de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, sino que, ademas, anticipo las horriblemente hilarantes alucinaciones de Vietnam abriendo paso y escotillas para soltar absurdistas y entropicos como Vonnegut, Berger, Kesey, Barthelme, Brautigan, Pynchon, Elkin, Friedman y Hunter Thompson y, mas cerca, Wallace, Saunders y Palahniuk.Rodrigo Fresan, Babelia, El PaisUna de las obras mas terriblemente divertidas en el uso del lenguaje [...]. Explosiva, implacable, subversiva, brillante.Robert Brustein, The New Republic Trampa 22 es una novela que nos recuerda una vez mas todo aquello que hemos dado por supuesto en nuestro mundo y que no deberiamos, la locura que intentamos que pase desapercibida, las decepciones y las mentiras que no tenemos la voluntad de discernir de la verdad.John W. Adridge, The New York Times Review A mi parecer,en los ultimos cincuenta años ha habido dos grandes novelas norteamericanas. Trampa 22 es una de ellas.Stephen King, EntertainmentWeekly Esta no es meramente la mejor novela norteamericana que surgio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial,es la mejor novela norteamericana que ha surgido en años de cualquier lugar.Nelson Algren, TheNation Lo que tienenen las manos [...] ...

Fifty years after its original publication, "Catch-22 "remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest--and most celebrated--books of all time. In recent years it has been named to "best novels" lists by "Time, Newsweek, "the Modern Library, and the London "Observer." Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy--it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he's assigned, he'll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction by Christopher Buckley; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos from Joseph Heller's personal archive; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature.

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 a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. Yossarian is a bombardier in the 256th Squadron of the Army Air Forces during World War II, stationed on Pianosa, a fictionalised island in the Mediterranean between mainland Italy and Corsica. The squadrons assignment is to bomb enemy positions in Italy and eastern France. Yossarian's mission is simply to stay alive.

Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, "Catch-22" is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, "Catch-22" is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him.

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.

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.