Gulliver's Travels

[David Simpson]

In a recent post Dave Monroe referred to:

>the thinly veiled allusions to contemporay figures, events, and
problems in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (which was apparently so
potentially incendiary that it was
published anonymously)<

But Gulliver's Travels wasn't published "anonymously." It was published
"pseudonymously." It was all part of a joke to make the book appear
(well, at least for a page or two) like authentic travel literature,
which was extremely popular at the time. The actual title was not
"Gulliver's Travels," but "Travels to Several Remote Regions of the
World." And its putative author was Lemuel Gulliver, Captain, HMN.


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turn back. That point is your destination." -- Kafka.
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