Like the setting of this novel, the characters, too, are fictitious." The setting for Heller's war, however, was very real. As Heller points out in a prefatory note, "It is very small and obviously could not accommodate all of the actions described. In the novel, Yossarian's squadron is on Pianosa, a real but tiny island east of Corsica and a few miles south of Elba. Most of the action in Catch-22 is based on Joseph Heller's experiences as a young officer and bombardier stationed on Corsica, an island off the west coast of Italy, with the Army Air Forces in 1944. naval base on the south coast of Oahu in Hawaii, near Honolulu. The cast included Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Olimpia Carlisi, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Charles Grodin, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Paula Prentiss, Martin Sheen, Jon Voight, and Orson Welles.The United States of America entered World War II in December 1941, immediately after a Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Basis for the 1970 film directed by Mike Nichols. The phrase 'Catch-22', symbolizing the absurdity of all institutional logic, has become a permanent part of our language" (NYPL Books of the Century 177). Many consider the novel to be the definitive statement of the modern antiwar position.
By the mid-1960's, it had become a cult classic among counterculture activists for its biting indictments of war.
When the novel appeared in 1961, World War II veterans appreciated its satire of the military bureaucracy and chaos of war. In Heller's World War II, a supplies manager has more power than a general, and anyone seeking a discharge on the grounds of insanity is declared sane enough to keep on fighting. "Catch-22, Joseph Heller's first and best-known novel, depicts a military world turned upside down. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles to the spine, front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker. Signed limited first edition of Heller� s classic first book.
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