Abstract:
This abstract is a study of Catch-22 (1961), a speciic early document of American
postmodern literature. In particular, this one is going to present the critical argument
on this novel as parallel to the wider concept of the postmodernism. My claim is that,
this novel is going to be treated in accordance with postmodern thought to paradox,
irony, black humor, which is a line between fantasy and reality and readers of the
novel are unsure about the point at which realism fades into fantasy and a collapsed
literary possibility, traditional techniques in literature, for these literary issues in fact
have come out many interpretations. So to attain best this argument is an approach
to Catch-22 of Joseph Heller. In attempt to, irstly , demonstrate how critics have
reduced the potential meaning of the novel in imposing its own notions of a literary
historical circle and secondly, how readings of Heller’s characters in the novel can
reveal an untapped possibility for further exploration of the broadest deinitions and
interpretations of the project of postmodernism. Through this work will be obviously
explained some of the most essential and basic postmodernist devices especially
through the art of writing and language used. Not only marginalized, lateral
characters will be on the spotlight of observation and analyses but also the major
and protagonist ones will characterize the typical features of postmodern notion.
