Joseph Heller (1) (1923–1999)

Autore di Comma 22

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American novelist and dramatist Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on May 1, 1923. Heller started off his writing career by publishing a series of short stories, but he is most famous for his satirical novel Catch-22. Set in the closing months of World War II, Catch-22 tells the story of a mostra altro bombardier named Yossarian who discovers the horrors of war and its aftereffects. This novel brought the phrase "catch-22," defined in Webster's Dictionary as "a situation presenting two equally undesirable alternatives," into everyday use. Heller wrote Closing Time, the sequel to Catch-22, in 1994. Other novels include As Good As Gold and God Knows. He also wrote No Laughing Matter, an account of his struggles with Guillain-Barr Syndrome, a neurological disorder, in 1986. Thirty-five years after writing his first book, Heller wrote his autobiography, entitled Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here. In his memoirs, Heller reminisces about what it was like growing up in Coney Island in the 1930s and 1940s. On December 13, 1999, Heller died of a heart attack in his home on Long Island. His last novel, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man, was published shortly after his death. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

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Serie

Catch-22

Opere di Joseph Heller

Popolari Recenti

Comma 22 (1961) 40,407 copie, 533 recensioni

E successo qualcosa (1974) 2,437 copie, 26 recensioni

Tempo scaduto (1994) 1,939 copie, 14 recensioni

Good as Gold (1979) 1,446 copie, 23 recensioni

God knows (1984) 1,395 copie, 11 recensioni

Figurati| (1988) 711 copie, 6 recensioni

Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (2000) 580 copie, 4 recensioni

Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here (1998) 277 copie, 1 recensione

Catch As Catch Can: The Collected Stories and Other Writings (2003) 252 copie, 4 recensioni

No Laughing Matter (1986) 215 copie, 2 recensioni

We Bombed in New Haven (1968) 163 copie, 5 recensioni

Work (2017) 20 copie, 2 recensioni

Sex and the Single Girl [1964 film] (1964) — Screenwriter — 20 copie

Catch-22 : a dramatization (1971) 17 copie, 1 recensione

Conversations with Joseph Heller (1993) 6 copie

Almost Like Christmas (A Mulholland / Strand Magazine Short) (2016) 4 copie

god knows (1984), catch-22 (1961 *but other years are $too)), now and then (1998), god is gold 1979 1 copia

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The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Collaboratore — 294 copie, 2 recensioni

Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (1993) — Collaboratore — 209 copie

Catch-22 [1970 film] (1970) — Original story — 129 copie, 3 recensioni

The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 (2014) — Collaboratore — 93 copie, 3 recensioni

Famous American Plays of the 1960s (1972) — Collaboratore — 63 copie, 1 recensione

Very seventies : a cultural history of the 1970s, from the pages of Crawdaddy (1995) — Collaboratore — 24 copie

Catch-22 [2019 TV mini-series] (2019) — Original story — 15 copie, 1 recensione

New world writing : seventh Mentor selection (1955) — Collaboratore — 8 copie

The Best American Short Stories 1949 (1949) — Collaboratore — 7 copie

The best of Playboy fiction, Volume 7 (1997) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Nome legale: Heller, Joseph
Data di nascita: 1923-05-01
Data di morte: 1999-12-12
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA
Luogo di morte: East Hampton, New York, USA
Causa della morte: heart attack
Luogo di residenza: New York, New York, USA
East Hampton, New York, USA
Istruzione: University of Southern California
New York University (BA ∙ 1948)
Columbia University (MA ∙ 1949 ∙ English)
Oxford University (St. Catherine's College)
Abraham Lincoln High School
Attività lavorative: university teacher
advertising industry
novelist
bombardier
Relazioni: Heller, Ted (son)
Heller, Erica (daughter)
Organizzazioni: American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1977)
Pennsylvania State University
US Army Air Force (WWII)
Premi e riconoscimenti: Fulbright Fellowship (1949-50)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1963)
Agente: Candida Donadio
Breve biografia: Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice.

Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Good as Gold, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time (the sequel to Catch-22), and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. Heller died in December 1999.

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Discussioni

63. Something Happened by Joseph Heller in Backlisted Book Club (Marzo 2022)

Recensioni

Comma 22 di Joseph Heller

"Chi è pazzo può chiedere di essere esonerato dalle missioni di guerra. Chi chiede di essere esonerato dalle missioni di guerra non è pazzo". Una battaglia contro l'insensatezza della guerra ma, soprattutto, contro l'insensatezza delle regole che ci governano. Ormai quasi un proverbio.