Joseph Heller

[Henry Musikar]

When JS is right, ie when I agree with him, he's right. The 
poignant, flat style of Something Happened's first person 
accumulative narrative is one of my faves.

On  1 May 97 at 16:35, Jules Siegel wrote:

> "Catch-22" was really funny when it came out. It absolutely captured
> the essence of what we were going through and somehow made it
> liveable, as well as being one of the best novels to come out of
> World War II. I can see where it would be much less poignant in
> another time. Heller's real masterpiece was "Something Happened,"
> which was such a bitterly faithful rendering of the media world of
> the late 50s and early 60s that reviewers gagged in disgust. It was
> their own nightmare that he drew in cold acid. I don't remember a
> single laugh, just endless wincing mirrored hells of psychic pain.

AsB4,
Henry Musikar

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