Estimated reading time is 6 minutes
Theoretical recommendations online really don't get too much, but I want to try to make complex theories interesting
According to the "Catch-22" doctrine, only a madman can be granted exemption from flying, but only if he or she applies. But once you apply, it just proves that you are a normal person or doomed. Article 22 also stipulates that pilots can return home after flying 25 sorties. But the regulations also emphasize that you must obey orders absolutely, or you cannot return home. So the superior can constantly increase the number of flights to the pilot, and you must not disobey. And so on, never ending.
In many book lists, the frequency of the appearance of "Twenty-second Military Rule" is very high, after all, the irony, absurdity, and abnormality of the work are unparalleled. The artistic achievement is also very high, even beyond the scope of the grand marshal's understanding...
(Who is the Grand Marshal?) Above the blue letter attention to get more understanding haha)
Reasons for recommendation
Let me first say the reason for the recommendation, and put the content introduction back.
After reading this book, I just want to say that the two words are "powerful", powerful in the author's superhuman logic, superhuman imagination, and superhuman narrative ability!
In fact, when you first read this book, if you don't understand the background, and you don't have a strong reading foundation and coherent thinking ability, as well as memory, the most intuitive feeling is that the whole article is a grotesque and off-topic text pile, can't find a complete plot, or even like a book.
Read it carefully, and after reading it, you can feel what the author really wants to express, just as the author himself said
I'm going to make people laugh first, and then go back and look back with fear about everything they've laughed about
- "Black Humor" originator Joseph Heller
But in fact, the background involved in the whole book, the description of the characters, the use of artistic skills, the expression of the theme ideas, and the profound thinking of society and human nature are definitely worth looking at.
Well, not to mention the cliché that looks so good in fact, it is useless, in fact, two words summarize
"Worth it" and "good looking"
Elaborate
01The first feature of "black humor"
Black humor, an absurd, perverted, morbid literary genre that juxtaposes pain and laughter, absurd facts and calm unrequited reactions, cruelty and tenderness, was an important literary genre in the United States in the 1960s.
forehead...... Baidu explains this in this way, in simple terms, perverted literature. It is very different from the small story that we normal people think is quite good, the logic is peculiar, the scene is strange, the plot is chaotic, and I don't know what to say. In fact, it is only because you do not understand, it is through such an expression, to achieve a strong ironic purpose, to stimulate the reader's thinking, over!
So it's worth it to rush to understand this style of black humor. After reading it a few times and understanding it, the corners of the mouth will involuntarily rise - good-looking!
02The second feature of "theme ideas"
I need to start with the context of the text
In the middle of the 20th century, the turbulent social environment in the United States was the root cause of the emergence, development and prosperity of black humor. At that time, after the end of the Korean War, on the one hand, the United States had social contradictions and frequent labor-capital conflicts, and on the other hand, McCarthyism had formed an atmosphere of repression and suffocation in the whole society; in the early 1960s, the United States was involved in the Vietnam War, and the defeat of the war and the tragic casualties of the US military made the anti-war sentiment in the country rise, the situation was turbulent, and the social situation was chaotic. The idea of Western democracy is doubted by some people in the face of reality, traditional moral concepts are abandoned, and the truth of life and thought is questioned. In this case, the American petty and middle bourgeoisie, out of an innate fear of the communist revolution, in a social context of confusion, has produced a "black" "humor" that combines ridicule and criticism of reality, exposé and satire, fantasy and negation.
Let's look at the background of the birth of the literary genre of black humor
In the absurdist war literature after World War II, the meaning of war disappeared and was replaced by absurdity, falsehood and confusion. The civil rights movement in the United States and the Vietnam War further exacerbated the turmoil in the domestic situation, and more importantly, more and more people began to doubt everything and lost faith. In addition, due to the development and breakthrough of new science and technology, although people are given a sense of empowerment, they deprive people of the last trace of mystery of life itself, and more and more alienate people from human nature. All of this fundamentally shakes man's firm belief in God and the universe, and people can no longer find spiritual solace in Christianity.
Looking at the background of the writing, the main thing is the war, the novel reflects the most real situation in the United States at that time to a certain extent, and it is also under such circumstances that the author feels the most real human nature, so that it can be described very profoundly, and naturally it is inevitable to be discussed!
After World War I, Americans doubted the existence of man, they felt that their existence was greatly threatened, and the stability of fate no longer existed. Religious beliefs no longer attracted them, and Christian doctrine was even more tedious to them, and they turned to Eastern religions such as supernaturalism, magic, astrophysics, and Zen Buddhism, and in this way represented a break with the so-called rational Western consciousness. What people see is a modern, consumption-centered cultural life, and the value orientation of thrifty entrepreneurship and economic achievement as the goal of life has been replaced by the needs of leisure life, play, and personal charm. At this time, the most admired people are not scientists, businessmen or politicians, but some professional athletes, the "stars" of the entertainment industry, and the "idol of consumption" has replaced the "idol of production". The pursuit of freedom and individual hedonism by people who have lost their traditional direction inevitably leads to their abandonment of traditional morality.
After understanding the background in this way, you will have a deeper understanding and understanding, and you will not be confused and unable to read.
In addition, the descriptions of more than forty characters in the book have different personalities, which are not as good as Water Margin, but they are also good enough!
By reading, you can capture the absurdity of war, the bureaucratic of American socialism.
03 Content Introduction
Harm, as mentioned earlier, is to describe a situation in the army under the circumstances of World War II, and to "pile up" the characters by describing them.
brief summary
The marshal just likes to read, but is not good at writing, just want to seriously recommend his favorite books to everyone
After reading the list of books recommended by many people, I think they are very empty, so that people have no interest in reading, and even collect them and never read them again.
So the marshal wants to try this way, welcome everyone's message suggestions
After all, the original is the original, the classic is a classic after all, if you want to understand the experience, you must pick up the book to feel! certain!