7센트에 사서 5센트에 팔면 3.25센트의 이익이 남는다 - 부조리, 자본주의, 『캐치-22』
How can one make a profit of 3.25 cents when buying for 7 cents and selling for 5 cents apiece? ― Absurdity, Capitalism, and Catch-22
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The study abroad as well as domestic of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, one of the representative WWII American texts, has not been sufficient enough for some unidentified reasons in the scholastic and critical world, despite the fact that its publication produced a new coinage, “Catch-22” in the English vocabulary. One can discern from the listed bibliography that there have been two ways in interpreting the texts in the rough: one focuses on its representation of absurdity, the other, its critique of capitalism and institution. This paper, however, argues that Yossarian’s absurd world and Milo Minderbinder’s world of capitalism can be interchangeable in that capitalism entails in a way absurdity itself in its genesis and nature. Milo’s calculation that he can make a profit of 3.25 cents when buying for 7 cents and selling the same product for 5 cents is notorious for its absurd reasoning which, however, happens a lot in the world of capitalism. In the real world where absurdity reigns, Yossarian cannot be judged insane because he is insane. However, he could escape from the complex world of absurdity and capitalism by engaging and adopting the economy of distribution and gift, while avoiding the economic mode of production and consumption. When he treats Nately’s whore’s sister as human being, when he treats other as self in the world of distribution and gift, his imagined trip to the utopian Sweden could remain as a possibility to pursue, regardless of the utopian negativity in human history.
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The study abroad as well as domestic of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, one of the representative WWII American texts, has not been sufficient enough for some unidentified reasons in the scholastic and critical world, despite the fact that its publication produced a new coinage, “Catch-22” in the English vocabulary. One can discern from the listed bibliography that there have been two ways in interpreting the texts in the rough: one focuses on its representation of absurdity, the other, its critique of capitalism and institution. This paper, however, argues that Yossarian’s absurd world and Milo Minderbinder’s world of capitalism can be interchangeable in that capitalism entails in a way absurdity itself in its genesis and nature. Milo’s calculation that he can make a profit of 3.25 cents when buying for 7 cents and selling the same product for 5 cents is notorious for its absurd reasoning which, however, happens a lot in the world of capitalism. In the real world where absurdity reigns, Yossarian cannot be judged insane because he is insane. However, he could escape from the complex world of absurdity and capitalism by engaging and adopting the economy of distribution and gift, while avoiding the economic mode of production and consumption. When he treats Nately’s whore’s sister as human being, when he treats other as self in the world of distribution and gift, his imagined trip to the utopian Sweden could remain as a possibility to pursue, regardless of the utopian negativity in human history.
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