The Impact of Joseph Heller Post-Modernist Features in the Recent Scientific Studies

Abstract

It is a crucial issue alongside other important topics to the academic level and also for the students who are interested in this
regard. After the Second World War there were some writers who possessed some characteristics that we may categorize only
to that period. One of these writers is the famous American one Joseph Heller. There are many books about the war but
Heller’s masterpiece “Catch-22” is uncomparable to none of them. Heller is a satirical novelist, a short story writer and a
playwright.(a) The features that led to “Black Humor” .The humor that Heller makes use of is obviously a human selfishness in
vain, this is very well represented in almost all the characters of this novel. The humor is dressed up in these characters to
explain the absurdity even when they think that they are being moral and fair. (b)Humor as a stylistic choice. Joseph Heller is
interested in a non-chronological narration and has been focused in a repetitive style approach. Heller was not alone in the war
novels there many other such as Kurt Vonnegut ,or Thomas Pynchon etc