SOURCE: "From Catch-22 to Slaughterhouse V: The Decline of the Political Mode," in South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 78, No. 1, Winter, 1979, pp. 17-33.
In the following essay, Hartshorne examines the novels Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse V as fables that may shed light on cultural and political phenomena of the 1960s.
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