John Clark Pratt (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: Pratt, John Clark. “Yossarian's Legacy: Catch-22 and the Vietnam War.” In Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature, edited by Philip K. Jason, pp. 88-110. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991.
[In the following essay, Pratt explores parallels between Catch-22 and the experience of fighting in the Vietnam War.]
At the outset, I must confess to some unintentional skullduggery. When going to Vietnam in the summer of 1969, I took with me a copy of Catch-22....
Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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