Swift's exuberant, bawdy fable is a unique satire on politics,
religion, fashion, madness and on writing itself - one which can be
seen as anticipating the postmodern age with its witty digressions and
dissection of the art of fiction.
Swift's exuberant, bawdy fable is a unique satire on politics, religion, fashion, madness and on writing itself - one which can be seen as anticipating the postmodern age with its witty digressions and dissection of the art of fiction.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Irish author and journalist, the foremost prose satirist in the English language. Swift's best known work is Gulliver's Travels (1726).