Which writer came up with Catch 22 in the 60s?
Catch-22 writer Arnošt Lustig recounts in his book "3x18" that Joseph Heller told him that he would never have written "Catch-22" had he not first read "The Good Soldier Švejk" by Jaroslav Hašek. In 1998, some critics raised the possibility that Heller's book had questionable similarities to Louis Falstein's 1950 novel, "Face of a Hero". Falstein never raised the issue between "Catch-22"'s publication and his death in 1995 and Heller claimed never to have been aware of the obscure novel. Heller said that the novel had been influenced by Céline, Waugh and Nabokov. Many of the similarities have been stated to
Catch-22 number of character exchanges in the novel, but because of the release of the 1960 movie "Ocean's Eleven", this was also rejected. "Catch-17" was rejected so as not to be confused with the World War II film "Stalag 17", as was "Catch-14", apparently because the publisher did not feel that 14 was a "funny number." Eventually, the title came to be "Catch-22", which, like 11, has a duplicated digit, with the 2 also referring to a number of "déjà vu"-like events common in the novel. "Catch-22" was sold to Simon & Schuster, where it had been championed by editor Robert