Catch-22

A community portal about Catch-22 with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Catch-22 is a novel by the American author Joseph Heller. A magazine excerpt from the novel was originally published as Catch-18, but Heller's... [more]

A community portal about Catch-22 with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Catch-22 is a novel by the American author Joseph Heller. A magazine excerpt from the novel was originally published as Catch-18, but Heller's publisher requested that he change the title of the novel so it wouldn't be confused with another recently published World War II novel, Leon Uris's Mila 18. The number 18 has special meaning in Judaism and was relevant to early drafts of the novel which had a somewhat greater Jewish emphasis. There was a suggestion for the title Catch-11, with the duplicated 1 in parallel to the repetition found in a number of character exchanges in the novel, but due to the release of the original movie Ocean's Eleven this was also rejected. Catch-14 was also rejected apparently because the publisher did not feel that 14 was a "funny number". So eventually the title came to be Catch-22, which like 11 has a duplicated digit with the 2 also referring to a number of deja vu like events common in the novel.