“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 is a satirical and deeply insightful work about war, bureaucracy, and the human mind. Through the story of Captain Yossarian, the author exposes the absurdity of the military system and the individual’s struggle against the madness of order. It is not merely an antiwar novel, but a philosophical reflection on freedom, fear, and the price of sanity in a world where madness has become the norm.