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It includes bibliographical references and an index, alongside editorial material that frames the novel’s reputation and contested critical reception. The editor’s note positions the work within a landscape of celebrated but transient fictions, while “Catch-22 Revisited” begins by recalling postwar absence and returning travel through Corsica, linking memory to the physical disappearance of the air base and war traces.","Joseph Heller's Catch-22  \nN E VJ E D I T I O N  \n\n| Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations |\n| --- |\n| Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 New Edition |\n\nEdited by Harold Bloom  \nSterling Professor of the Humanities Yale University  \nEditorial Consultant, Matthew J. Bruccoli  \nBloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: Joseph Heller’s Catch-22—New Edition  \nCopyright ©2008 by Infobase Publishing Introduction ©2008 by Harold Bloom  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact:  \nBloom’s Literary Criticism  \nAn imprint of Infobase Publishing  \n132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nJoseph Heller’s Catch-22 / edited by Harold Bloom.—New ed.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Modern criticial interpretations) Includes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 978-0-7910-9617-8 (acid-free paper : alk. paper)  \n1. Heller, Joseph. Catch-22 . 2. World War, 1939–1945—Literature and the war. 3. War stories, American—History and criticism. I. Bloom, Harold.  \nPS3558 . E476C334 2008  \n813'.54—dc22 2007042768  \nBloom’s Literary Criticism books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk quantities for businesses, associations, institutions, or sales promotions. Please call our Special Sales Department in New York at (212) 967-8800 or (800) 322-8755.  \nYou can find Bloom’s Literary Criticism on the World Wide Web at [http://www.chelseahouse.com](http://www.chelseahouse.com).  \nCover design by Ben Peterson Printed in the United States of America Bang BCL 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is printed on acid-free paper.  \nAll links and web addresses were checked and verified to be correct at the time of publication. Because of the dynamic nature of the web, some addresses and links may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid.  \nEditor’s Note  \nMy Introduction amiably consigns Catch-22 to the vast heap of Period Pieces, a strange dumping-ground on the moon of a planet in another solar system. There Heller’s extended joke joins other celebrated fictions that will be forgotten, including On the Road, Beloved, and the sacred seven Harry Potter tediums.  \nThere are twenty or so contributors to this volume who do not agree with me, but that does not disturb the aged canonical critic, the pariah of his self-slain profession.  \nI can single out Robert Brustein, Christopher Buckley, and Sanford Pinsker for keeping some sense of balance in this volume. Alas, I myself find nothing in Catch-22 that might provoke balance. It will not last, and there’san end on it.  \nJO SEPH H ELLER  \nCatch-22 Revisited  \nWhere the airfield stood, there is nothing. The planes are gone, the tents are gone. It’s almost as though there had never been an American air base here on the eastern shore of Corsica. 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