Cat's Cradle
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A great book. First published AD 1963, written in English
Cat's Cradle is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's fourth novel, it was first published on March 18, 1963, exploring and satirizing issues of science, technology, the purpose of religion, and the arms race, often through the use of morbid humor. The novel was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1964.
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What it draws on
Moby-DickGreat book
Herman Melville, AD 1851
Vonnegut's narrator begins 'Call me Jonah', turning Melville's 'Call me Ishmael' toward another man swallowed by a great fish, and by a fate he did not choose.
Source: Wikipedia, Cat's Cradle
“The narrator is a writer who claims his parents named him John but begins the book by stating "Call me Jonah," alluding to the first line of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ("Call me Ishmael"), offering a parallel between Moby-Dick and the biblical Jonah's interaction with the large fish.” Read it there
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