referred to the work as "dark and brilliant". Comedian Richard Lewis claims he "happily lost most of [his] hope" after reading the novel. References External links Kurt Vonnegut on 'Something Happened' from The New York Times Book Review (1974). 1974 American novels Novels by Joseph Heller Alfred A. Knopf books Fiction with unreliable narrators Books with cover art by Paul Bacon Bureaucracy in fiction