标题: Catch-22 [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 11-26-2011 11:10 标题: Catch-22 Joseph Heller and his fiction | The First Cut Is the Deepest; 10m copies and never out of print. Economist, Oct 8, 2011 http://www.economist.com/node/21531414
(book review on Tracy Daugherty, Just One Catch: A biography of Joseph Heller. St Martion's Press, 2011)
Note:
(a) Catch-22 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22
(the novel was first published in 1961; this clause of Catch-22; Yossarian comes to realize that Catch-22 does not actually exist)
(b) Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
(c) The "catch" in "There was only one catch" is a noun that means:
"a concealed difficulty or complication <there must be a catch>" www.m-w.com