Frases de Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller novelista estadounidense, estudió en la Universidad de Nueva York.

Estudió en las universidades de Nueva York, Columbia y Oxford y acabó enseñando inglés en la Universidad Estatal de Pensilvania.[1]​ Era un admirador de la obra de Louis-Ferdinand Céline y de James Patrick Donleavy.[2]​

Se hizo famoso con su primera novela Trampa-22 en 1961 donde realizó una crítica a la ética militar norteamericana coincidiendo con la Guerra de Vietnam. El héroe de esta novela es el aviador Yossarian, quien pretende alegar demencia para escapar del servicio militar, a lo que las autoridades le responden que no querer llevar a cabo misiones aéreas es signo de salud mental.[3]​ En 1970 se realizó una película basada en la novela.[4]​

✵ 1. mayo 1923 – 12. diciembre 1999
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“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”

Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Variante: Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity trust upon them.
Fuente: Catch-22 (1961)
Contexto: Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.

“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.”

Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Catch-22 (1961)
Contexto: There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. "That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

“The only wisdom I think I've attained is the wisdom to be skeptical of other people's ideology and other people's arguments. I tend to be a skeptic, I don't like dogmatic approaches by anybody.”

In an interview for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: "Joseph Heller - Closing Time" (1998) by Ramona Koval http://web.archive.org/web/20000306044602/http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/bwriting/heller.htm <!-- accessdate=2007-08-30 -->
Contexto: The only wisdom I think I've attained is the wisdom to be skeptical of other people's ideology and other people's arguments. I tend to be a skeptic, I don't like dogmatic approaches by anybody. I don't like intolerance and a dogmatic person is intolerant of other people. It's one of the reasons I keep a distance from all religious beliefs. I think in this country and in Australia too there's a late intolerance in most religions, an intolerance, a part that could easily become persecutions.
We have some ultra-orthodox Jewish sects here in New York and I fear them as much as I would fear a Nazi organisation.

“Insanity is contagious.”

Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch-22

“Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.”

Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch-22 (1961)
Contexto: Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably.... It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.

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