* Joseph Heller's Catch-22

The idea for Catch-22 was based on Joseph Heller's personal experience in World War II.

* In Joseph Heller's book Something Happened, Bob Slocum remarks, " The Fuggers were all right as long as they stayed in Germany ; then they sent their mothers here.

Sometimes the title of a book becomes the neologism, for instance, Catch-22 ( from the title of Joseph Heller's novel ).

Some of the best known of the works produced included Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead ( 1948 ), Joseph Heller's Catch-22 ( 1961 ) and Kurt Vonnegut Jr .' s Slaughterhouse-Five ( 1969 ).

* Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 ( 1961 ) alludes to the poem in the chapter " Havermyer ": " the open-air movie theater in which — for the daily amusement of the dying — ignorant armies clashed by night on a collapsible screen.

Long Foundation in Joseph Heller's " Good as Gold ".

John Joseph Yossarian is a fictional character and protagonist in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 and its sequel Closing Time.

Something Happened is Joseph Heller's second novel ( published in 1974, thirteen years after Catch-22 ).

First Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's most successful novel, Catch-22.

* Kraft ( Catch-22 ), a character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22

Edward J. Nately III is a character in Joseph Heller's classic novel Catch-22.

Nately's Whore's Kid Sister is another character in Joseph Heller's classic novel Catch-22.

* The piazza is featured in several scenes of director Mike Nichols ' 1970 adaptation of Joseph Heller's novel, Catch-22.

Major Major Major Major ( hereinafter Maj. Major for short ) is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22, whose name and rank is the title of chapter 9.

Chaplain Captain Albert Taylor Tappman ( A. T. Tappman ) ( usually simply referred to as " The Chaplain ") is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22.

* Milo Minderbinder, a character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22

The central concept of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 is the irony of the now-idiomatic " catch-22 ", and the narrative is structured around a long series of similar ironies.

Perhaps demonstrated most famously and effectively in Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and the work of Thomas Pynchon, the sense of paranoia, the belief that there's an ordering system behind the chaos of the world is another recurring postmodern theme.

Many of the well-known postmodern novels deal with World War II, one of the most famous of which being Joseph Heller's Catch-22.

* Major Major Major Major, character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22

John Joseph Yossarian – Protagonist in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 and its sequel Closing Time

" But modernism was already stirring at least by 1902, with a work such as Joseph Conrad's ( 1857-1924 ) Heart of Darkness, while Alfred Jarry's ( 1873-1907 ) absurdist play, Ubu Roi appeared, even earlier, in 1896.

Additional speculation from Douglas Kellner of UCLA argued that Big Brother represents Joseph Stalin and that the novel portrayed life under totalitarianism.

( 1952 ); Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ; and as Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara ( 1957 ), Joshua Logan's adaption of James Michener's 1954 novel.

* In the novel The War of the End of the World from Latin American writer Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the main characters is Galileo Gall, a phrenologist whose name refers to Galileo Galilei and Franz Joseph Gall, founder of the science of phrenology.

In the US, the new novels Moscow Club ( 1991 ) by Joseph Finder, Masquerade ( 1996 ) by Gayle Lynds, and The Unlikely Spy ( 1996 ) by Daniel Silva, and in the UK, A Spy By Nature ( 2001 ) by Charles Cumming and Remembrance Day ( 2000 ) by Henry Porter, maintained the spy novel in the post – Cold War world.

* Bar-Kokhba ( 1953 ), a Hebrew novel by Joseph Opatoshu

Another adaptation, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was produced by Joseph Shaftel Productions ( distributed by Fox-Rank productions ) in 1972, and is felt by many to be the most faithful adaptation to the original novel, with the exception of the omitted scene with the Cheshire Cat ( Roy Kinnear ) replaced by Tweedledum and Tweedledee ( in a scene which remains faithful to their respective scene from Alice Through the Looking Glass ).

Such connections were taken up by Thomas Mann, who in his novel Joseph and His Brothers attributes characteristics of a sign of the zodiac to each tribe in his rendition of the Blessing of Jacob.

The incident was used as inspiration by Joseph Conrad in his novel The Secret Agent.

* 1902: Although not explicitly cited, the Congo River provides the setting for Joseph Conrad's 1902 novel Heart of Darkness.

This juvenile novel inspired Joseph Greene of Grosset & Dunlap to develop the Tom Corbett, Space Cadet comic books, television series, radio show, comic strip, and novels that were popular in the early 1950s.

* Chance ( novel ), a 1913 novel by Joseph Conrad

* Job ( novel ), a novel by Joseph Roth

Joseph Conrad's last novel, ' The Rover ', is also set around Toulon.

Books for younger readers both have historical settings: Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door ( 1998 ) ( grades 4-6 ) is set in 1777 ; and Beth Kanell's young adult novel, The Darkness Under the Water ( 2008 ), concerns a young Abenaki-French Canadian girl during the time of the Vermont Eugenics Project, 1931-1936.

Catch-22 is a satirical and historical novel by the American author Joseph Heller.

Henry Fielding proved his mastery of the form in Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ), The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great ( 1743 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ), but, as Fielding himself wrote, these novels were written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, not in imitation of the picaresque novel ; Cervantes himself wrote a short picaresque novel, Rinconete y Cortadillo part of his Novelas Ejemplares ( Exemplary Novels ).

Its libretto is by Count Carlo Pepoli, based on Têtes rondes et Cavaliers by Jacques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine, which is in turn based on Walter Scott's novel Old Mortality.

** Joseph O ' Connor's novel Star of the Sea – where one section concerns a character's imprisonment and subsequent escape from Newgate.

It was adapted by Harry Behn and King Vidor ( uncredited ) from the play by Joseph Farnham and the autobiographical novel Plumes by Laurence Stallings, and directed by Vidor.

The Go-Between was adapted from the novel by the playwright Harold Pinter in the third of his collaborations with film director Joseph Losey.

The publication in 1944 of the first in-depth study and analysis of Joyce's final text — A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson — tried to prove to a skeptical public that if the hidden key or " Monomyth " could be found, then the book could be read as a novel with characters, plot, and an internal coherence.

As Secretary of State in the 2012 comic novel Nick & Jake, by Tad Richards and Jonathan Richards, Dulles demands the resignation of Undersecretary Nicholas Carraway ( from The Great Gatsby ), who has been accused of subversive activity by Senator Joseph McCarthy.