Catch-22 Allusions

Literature, Philosophy, and Mythology

• Washington Irving (Introduced in 1.12, repeated repeatedly after that).
• Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan of the Apes (2.48)
• William Shakespeare (2.48): Hamlet – Fortinbras (29.38)
• Homer (2.48): The Odyssey – Ulysses (2.48), The Iliad – Achilles (38.3)
• J.M. Synge: Deirdre of the Sorrows (2.48)
• T.S. Eliot: "Sweeney among the Nightingales" (2.48)
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment – Raskolnikov (2.58)
• John Milton (9.117)
• Plato (29.7)
• Nietzsche (29.7)
• Michel de Montaigne (29.7)
• Marquis de Sade (29.7)
• The Bible: Cain (2.48), Lot in Sodom (2.48), Saul (9.19), Tree of life (24.96), Tree of knowledge (24.96)