Fonti primarie.
Heller, Joseph, Catch-22, trad. it. Mondadori, Comma 22, Milano, Oscar Mondadori, 1974.
Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse-Five, trad. it Feltrinelli, Milano, Feltrinelli Editore, 2003.
Fonti secondarie.
Aichinger, Peter, The American Soldier in Fiction, 1880-1963, Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1975.
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Barnard, Ken, ''Interview with Joseph Heller,'' in Kiley, Frederick T., McDonald, Walter, eds., A Catch-22 Casebook, New York: Cromwell, 1977.
Bercovitch, Sacvan, gen. ed., The Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. 7 Prose Writing 1940-1970, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Boon, Kevin Alexander, At Millenium's End: New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001.
Bonanate, Luigi, La guerra, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1998.
Borey, Eddie, Insanity of War in Slaughterhouse-Five, September 3, 2001, http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Author/Vonnegut.html
Burhans, Clinton S., ''Spindrifts and the Sea: Structural Patterns and Unifying Elements in Catch-22'' in Nagel, James, Critical Essays on Joseph Heller, Boston: Hall, 1984.
Camus, Albert, Le Mythe de Sisyphe, Paris, 1942.
Casadei, Alberto, La guerra, Collana Alfabeto Letterario, Bari, Laterza, 1999.
Cooperman, Stanley, World War I and the American Novel, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967.
Cummings, E. E., The Enormous Room, trad. it. Fazi Editore, La stanza enorme, Roma, Fazi Editore, 1988.
Cunliffe, Marcus, Storia della letteratura americana, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino, Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1990.
Dagna Campagnoli, P. e Martini, A., L'avventura del lettore, Vol. I, Torino, Edizioni ''Il Capitello'', 1991.
Davis, Gary W., ''Catch-22 and the Language of Discontinuity'' in Nagel, James, Critical Essays on Joseph Heller, Boston: Hall, 1984.
Davis, Todd F., Apocaliptic Grumbling: Postmodern Humanism in the Work of Kurt Vonnegut, in Boon, Kevin Alexander, At Millenium's End: New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001.
Dawley, Jason, The Use of Fragmentation in Slaughterhouse-Five, June 27, 1999, http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4953/kv_essays.html
De Federicis, Lidia, Letteratura e Storia, Collana Alfabeto Letterario, Bari, Laterza, 1998.
Doskow, Minna, ''The Night Journey in Catch-22,'' Twentieth Century Literature, 11-12, 1965-67.
Duma Sergio, L'America che non ama la guerra, http://www.unile.it/comunicazione/contenuti/files/relazione%20Duma.pdf
Dunstan, Brittany, Destruction of Dresden, Destruction of Vonnegut's Dream, April 6, 2002, http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4953/kv_essays.html
Ehrhart,W. D.,''Soldier's Poets of the Korean War,'' WLA 9, 2, Fall/Winter 1997.
Elliott, Emory, gen. ed., Columbia Literary History of the United States, New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Elliott, Emory, gen. ed., The Columbia History of the American Novel, New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Fink G., Maffi M., Minganti F., Tarozzi B., Storia della letteratura americana, Firenze, Sansoni, 1991.
French, Warren, The Social Novel as the End of an Era, Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 1966.
Friedman, Bruce Jay, Black Humor, New York, 1965.
Fusco, Courtney Joseph, Sincronicity Between Parallel Plot Lines in Slaughterhouse-Five, June 27, 1999, http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4953/kv_essays.html
Fussell, Paul, Tempo di guerra, Milano, Mondadori, 1991.
Gaukroger, Doug, ''Time Structure in Catch-22'', in Kiley and McDonald, eds., A Catch-22 Casebook, New York: Cromwell, 1977.
Giannone, Richard, Kurt Vonnegut, Port Washington: Kennikat Press, 1977.
Goldsmith, David, Kurt Vonnegut: Fantastist of Fire and Ice, Bowling Green: Bowling Green Press, 1972.
Grainer, Donald J., ''Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and the Fiction of Atrocity'',Critique 14, 1973.
Green, Jerry, So It Goes: An Examination of Life through Death in Slaughterhouse-Five, May 17, 2003, http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4953/kv_essays.html
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Harrigan, John, Billy Pilgrim's Two Characters, December 16, 2002, http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4953/kv_essays.html
Harris, Charles B., Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd, New Haven: College & University Press, 1971.
Hillegas, Mark R., The Future as Nightmare: H.G.Wells and the Anti-Utopians, New York, 1967.
Hines, Chad, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel of Opposites, December 16, 2002, http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4953/kv_essays.html
Jones, Peter G., War and the Novelist: Appraising the American War Novel, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1976.
Karl, Frederick Robert, American Fictions, 1940-1980: A Comprehensive History and Critical Evaluation, New York: Harper & Row, 1983.
Kazin, Alfred, Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer, Boston: Atlantic Little Brown, 1973.
Ketterer, David, New Worlds for Old: The Apocalyptic Imagination, Science Fiction and American Literature, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.
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Klinkowitz, Jerome. Kurt Vonnegut. New York: Methuen, 1982.
Klinkowitz, Jerome, Literary Disruptions: The Making of Post-Contemporary American Fiction, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1980.
Klinkowitz, Jerome, The American 1960s: Imaginative Acts in a Decade of Change, Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1980.
Klinkowitz, Jerome, and Somer, John, The Vonnegut Statement: Original Essays on the Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut, New York: Delacorte, 1973.
Korda, Michael, citato in Zucconi, Vittorio, ''Addio all' autore di Comma 22'', La Repubblica, 14/12/1999, pag. 44.
Kostelanetz, Richard, ed., American Writing Today, Washington, DC: Us. Internat. Communication Agency, 1982.
Lichtenstein, Jesse, ''Slaughterhouse-Five: Themes, Motifs and Symbols'', Spark Notes 2002, Spark Notes LLC., 29 January 2002, http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/slaughter/themes.html
Lundquist, James, Kurt Vonnegut, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, Co., 1977.
Magris, Claudio, L'epopea impossibile, Il Corriere della Sera, 12 luglio, 1999.
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Mellard, James, ''Heller's Catch-22,'' in Mellard, James, The Exploded Form: The modernist Novel in America, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980.
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Merrill, Robert, and Scholl, Peter A., ''Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five: The Requirements of Chaos'' in Merrill, Robert, Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut, Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1990.
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Nagel, James, ''Catch-22 and Angry Humor: A Study of the Normative Values of Satire,'' Studies in American Humor 1, 1974.
Nagel, James, Critical Essays on Joseph Heller, Boston: Hall, 1984.
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Olderman, Raymond, Beyond the Waste Land: The American Novel in the Nineteen-Sixties, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.
Phillips, Leslie, So It Goes, March 11, 2002, http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4953/kv_essays.html
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Pinsker, Sanford, ''Heller's Catch-22: Potest of a Puer Eternis'', Critique, VII, Winter, 1964-65.
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Reed, Peter J., Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Warner Books, 1972.
Richter, David H., Fable's End: Completeness and Closure in Rhetorical Fiction, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1974.
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Sacks, Sheldon, Fiction and the Shape of Belief, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.
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Vonnegut, Kurt Jr., Hocus Pocus, New York: Dell Publishing, 1990.
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr., The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dell, 1970.
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons, New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1974.
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