This paper examines how fragmentation permeates every aspect of Joseph Heller's novel "Catch-22". linguistically, thematically and structurally, allowing him to
create a wide-ranging
satire that never loses sight of its central existentialist focus, Yossarian's powerful desire to survive at all costs. It looks at how Heller employs a
variety of techniques to achieve the apparent incoherence of the narrative, fulfilling his satirical and comic aims and how hese include a multitude of characters, the distorted and looping
sense of time and the curiously disjoined language. It demonstrates how the multiple plot strands allow Heller to attack a variety of institutions from different angles, how the satire is polyform and how these aspects together create a sense of insanity, reflective of the
madness on Pianosa and the horrific madness of the
war itself.
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