Volume III Issue I January-March 2023

Name of Author : K Muthamizh, A K Kulsumbi

Title of the paper : Joseph Hellers Catch-22 Portrays Black Humor

Abstract: The most well-known of Hellers war-themed novels is Catch-22, which he also wrote as a realistic, blackly funny tale that was influenced by 1950s American society. The book uses the war as its backdrop to describe the battlefield from the viewpoint of a little potato, exposing the slovenly American bureaucracy and the disarray of the entire social, political, and economic system. Heller broke the single narrative mode and language form of the conventional novel by incorporating the absurdity into the story from multiple angles. The story juxtaposes disparate events brought on by erratic military laws with a lot of contradicting juxtaposition and ambiguous humorous language, which undermines the narratives claimed realism.

Keywords : Joseph Heller, Black Humor, Absurd, Perspective

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Page No. : 64-65