早上起来头疼，拉肚子，然后就吃了方便面，躺在沙发上，把余下的catch-22看完了。

 

好久，都没有看到这样一本好书，想把很多句子划下来记在本子上，看完以后心理面空荡荡的想马上再重复一遍。

classic就是classic.

 

这是我所见的，把黑色幽默写到极致的一本小说。06年我得到这本书as a Christams gift的时候，看不下20页。完全不一样的写作风格。06冬硬着头皮读的时候，觉得这本书里面人都疯了，疯得我看不明白。直到前几天再次拿起来，挨过头几章，习惯了那种写作方式以后，突然就停不下来了，经常看得又哭又笑。我觉得有一点像鲁迅的东西似的，晦涩或者有时让人觉得摸不着头脑，但是很耐得住品味，会特别想再去读一遍，不会像畅销书那样读过一遍就想半价在ebay上面卖掉。

 

关于那个catch，wiki有很好的解释：

Among other things, Catch-22 is a general critique of bureaucratic operation and reasoning. Resulting from its specific use in the book, the phrase "Catch-22" is common idiomatic usage meaning "a no-win situation" or "a double bind" of any type. Within the book, "Catch-22" is a military rule, the self-contradictory circular logic that, for example, prevents anyone from avoiding combat missions. In Heller's own words:

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," Yossarian observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

全书有很多这种明显逻辑循环错误的语句，比如“我唯一的错误是我没有错误”之类。又比如说Chaplain的那段："He was pinched perspiringly in the epistemological dilemma of the skeptic, unable to accept solutions to problems he was unwilling to dismiss as unsolvable. "

 

关于写作手法的评价在中文维基上也有很好的解释：

 

这些日子有时间就在读这本书，如果悟空在家的时候就会把我觉得好玩的句子念给他，比如："Milo lifted his arm suddenly and pointed towards the open-air theater, where the milky dust-filled beam bursting horizontally from the projector slashed a conelike swath in the blackness and draped in a fluorescent membrane of light the audience tilted on the seats there in hypnotic sags, their faces focused upward towards the alumnized movie screen. Milo's eyes were liquid with integrity , and his artless and uncorrpted face was lustrous with a shining mixture of sweat and insect repellent. "

恩 经常有这种特别好的语言又特别让人倒的句子。哭笑不得。比如Major Major因为叫Major Major所以给提拔成了Major 变成了Major Major Major.

 

虽然全书都是反讽非常搞笑的黑色幽默，但是还是那么哀伤。在街上在众人耻笑下企图抢回假发的秃顶妓女，那个因为和德军睡觉而被剃光的头是Yosarrian看到的最naked的身体，甚至殊于那些whore houses的全裸。而最后写到Snowden的死，破裂的肠子翻出他所吃过的东西，写的那么直白而详细我都不忍看下去。

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

"'I am cold,' Snowden said. 'I am cold.'"

 

就像Mr. Dolbier所评价的那样，这是一本'A wild, moving, shocking, hilarious, raging, exhilarating, giant roller-coaster of a book. ' 为了不毁掉这本书的伏笔影响大家以后阅读，我就不再这里继续抄书了。就是非常推荐非常非常推荐，是一个很值得收藏的书。

 

我还找到了中文的译文： http://www.tianyabook.com/waiguo2005/h/haile/dese/index.html

 

Enjoy.