Yossarian rides again
Michael Wood
- Closing Time by Joseph Heller
Simon and Schuster, 464 pp, £14.99, October 1994, ISBN 0 671 71907 6
‘Logic is doubtless unshakeable,’ Joseph K. thinks towards the end of The Trial, ‘but it cannot withstand a man who wants to go on living.’ He is wrong, of course, since he is killed within a page by the brutal logic of the novel he is in. But there is a logic that resists such logic, and one of its masters is Joseph H., author of Catch 22 and other objections to the absurdity of dying.
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Vol. 16 No. 20 · 20 October 1994 » Michael Wood » Yossarian rides again
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