Catch-22
by Joseph Heller

Catch-22: Genre 1 key example

Genre
Explanation and Analysis:

In genre, Catch-22 is part of a not-so-small category of novels about World War II, which can be considered a genre unto themselves. After the war, many novelists, poets, and other writers sought to render it in literature, and their works tended to have similar features: a focus on the absurd and evil ideology of the war; a discussion of global superpowers and their militaries, especially the U.S. (as in this novel) and the U.S.S.R.; and a focus on the social and cultural movements of the late 40s and 50s, after the war.