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==Allusions and references from other works==
===References===
*[[Philip K. Dick]]'s short story "Prize Ship" (1954) loosely referred to ''Gulliver's Travels''<ref>''Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick: Volume One, Beyond Lies The Wub'', Philip K. Dick, 1999, Millennium, an imprint of Orion Publishing Group, London</ref>

*[[Salman Rushdie]] refers to a country called Lilliput-Belfuscu in his novel ''[[Fury (novel)|Fury]]''.

*[[Hayao Miyazaki]]'s anime film ''[[Laputa: Castle in the Sky]]'' is about a mythical flying island.

*Rutherford Calhoun, the fictional narrator of [[Charles R. Johnson]]'s novel ''[[Middle Passage]]'' briefly alludes to the Brobdingnagians.

*In the 9th book of ''[[TimeWars|The Time Wars Series]]'', [[Simon Hawke|Simon Hawke's]] ''The Lilliput Legion'', the protagonists meet Lemuel Gulliver and battle the titular army.<ref>''The Lilliput Legion'', Simon Hawke, 1989, Ace Books, New York, NY</ref>

*In ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]'', [[Guy Montag|Montag]] briefly reads a section of ''Gulliver's Travels'' to his wife, who insists that it makes no sense. The section read is "It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end."

*In the [[anime]] series ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' of the popular [[Digimon]] franchise, episode 28 referred to ''Gulliver's Travels'' by [[Iori]] who compared it to that of the Giga House that they were in.

*In the novel [[Waves (novel)|''Waves'']], by Ogan Gurel, Chapter 6 (''Happiness'') includes a descriptive scene in which a fantastically microscopic 'Dr.Lilliput' (a cross between Gulliver and the Lilliputians) travels inside the brain touching cells and proteins.

===Sequels and imitations===
* Many sequels followed the initial publishing of the ''Travels''. The earliest of these was the Abbé [[Pierre Desfontaines]]' ''Le Nouveau Gulliver ou Voyages de Jean Gulliver, fils du capitaine Lemuel Gulliver'' (The New Gulliver, or the travels of John Gulliver, son of Captain Lemuel Gulliver), published in 1730. The author was also the first French translator of Swift's story.
*The Hungarian writer [[Frigyes Karinthy]] (1887-1938) wrote two novels in which a 20th-century Gulliver visits imaginary lands. One, ''Utazás Faremidóba'' (i.e. ''[[Voyage to Faremido]]''), recounts a trip to a land with almost robot-like, metallic beings whose lives are ruled by science, not emotion, and who communicate through a language based on musical notes. The second, [[Capillaria]], is a satirical comment on male-female relationships. It involves a trip by Gulliver to a world where all the intelligent beings are female, males being reduced to nothing more than their reproductive function.
*[[Soviet]] [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] science fiction writer [[Volodymyr Ivanovych Savchenko|Vladimir Savchenko]] published ''Gulliver's Fifth Travel - The Travel of Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships to the Land of Tikitaks'' ({{lang-ru|''Пятое путешествие Гулливера - Путешествие Лемюэля Гулливера, сначала хирурга, а потом капитана нескольких кораблей, в страну тикитаков''}}) - a sequel to the original series in which Gulliver's role as a surgeon is more apparent. Tikitaks are people who inject the juice of a unique fruit to make their skin transparent, as they consider people with regular opaque skin secretive and ugly.
*[[Davy King]]'s 1978 short story "The Woman Gulliver Left Behind" [http://www.davyking.com/The%20Woman%20Gulliver%20Left%20Behind.pdf] is a sort of satirical feminist spin on the tale, telling it from the point of view of Gulliver's wife. Alison Fell's novel "The Mistress of Lilliput" does likewise: Mary Gulliver goes travelling herself.
*The British children's book ''[[Mr Majeika]] on the Internet'' (2001) by [[Humphrey Carpenter]] includes modernized parallels to the lands of the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians, Laputans and Houyhnhnms.
*[[Adam Roberts (British writer)|Adam Roberts]]' novel ''Swiftly'' (2008) is set 120 years after Gulliver's time and shows a world where the inhabitants of Lilliput and Blefuscu are now slaves of the British, and the Brobdingnagians are allied to France in a war against Britain.

===Uses of characters===
====Gulliver====
*In [[Alan Moore]]'s comic ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'', Gulliver was the unofficial leader of an early incarnation of the League which also included [[The Scarlet Pimpernel]], [[Dr. Syn]] and [[Fanny Hill]].
*The character of Gulliver appears in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[The Mind Robber]]'', played by [[Bernard Horsfall]]. He speaks only dialogue from the original book (though some speeches are patched together from widely separated sections).

====Lilliputians====
*The novel ''[[Mistress Masham's Repose]]'' (1946) by [[T. H. White]] features descendants of Lilliputians that were captured and brought to England.
*The novel ''[[Castaways in Lilliput]]'' (1958) by [[Henry Winterfeld]] is about three normal-sized children who land in a modern version of Lilliput.
*The TV series ''[[The Return of the Antelope]]'' ([[Granada Television]]) centres around the adventures of three Lilliputian sailors shipwrecked in England. The series was subsequently made into the stories ''The Return of the ''Antelope (1985) and its sequels ''The'' Antelope ''Company Ashore'' (1986) and ''The'' Antelope ''Company at Large'' (1987), all by Willis Hall. Republished as ''The Secret Visitors'', ''The Secret Visitors Take Charge'', and ''The Secret Visitors Fight Back''.
*The comic book series ''[[Fables (comic)|Fables]]'' (2002-) has a city called "Smalltown" which was founded by self-exiled Lilliputian soldiers. All small Fables (not just Lilliputians) have a tendency to refer to normal-sized people as "gullivers" or as being "gulliver-sized".
*In early printings of ''[[The Hobbit]]'', [[hobbit]]s are contrasted (in size) with Lilliputians. The reference was removed in the third edition.

====Houyhnhnms====
*In [[John Myers Myers]] novel [[Silverlock]], the protagonist, A. Clarence Shandon, encounters the Houyhnhnms, and is dismissed by them as a Yahoo.


==Adaptations==
==Adaptations==

Revision as of 05:36, 26 October 2009

For other uses, see Gulliver's Travels (disambiguation).
Gulliver's Travels
First Edition of Gulliver's Travels
AuthorJonathan Swift
Original titleTravels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships
LanguageEnglish
GenreSatire and sometimes Science Fiction
PublisherBenjamin Motte
Publication date
1726
Publication placeEngland
Media typePrint

Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.

The book became tremendously popular as soon as it was published. (John Gay said in a 1726 letter to Swift that "it is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery" [1] ); since then, it has never been out of print.

Adaptations

Literary abridgments

  • "A Voyage to Lilliput" was adapted for inclusion in Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book

Music

  • German composer Georg Philipp Telemann wrote a suite for two violins, the "Gulliver Suite." The five movements are "Intrada," "Chaconne of the Lilliputians," "Gigue of the Brobdingnagians," "Daydreams of the Laputians and their attendant flappers," and "Loure of the well-mannered Houyhnhnms & Wild dance of the untamed Yahoos." Telemann wrote his suite in 1728, only two years after the publication of Swift's novel. In recent years, an eclectic "Gulliver Suite" was written and recorded (2008) by the Italian musician and producer Andrea Ascolini
  • One of popular funk band No More Kings' most popular songs, "Leaving Lilliput", is a retelling of Gulliver's first voyage.
  • In Sereno, an album by Spanish Pop singer Miguel Bosé, he has a song in reference to Gulliver titled Gullever.
  • British Psychedelic Folk band The Yellow Moon Band's debut (2009) album was titled "Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World" in a reference to Swift's book and the ranging and eclectic mix of sounds and influences on the album. The band's guitarist Rudy Carroll has also commented that he lived in a house called "Lilliput" when he was a child.

Film, Television and Radio

Gulliver's Travels has been adapted several times for film, television and radio:

  • The New Gulliver (1935): Russian film by Aleksandr Ptushko about a Soviet schoolboy who dreams about ending up in Lilliput. Notable for its intricate puppetry and a decidedly strange twisting of Swift's tale in favour of Communist ideas. This was the first film to contain stop motion animation in nearly its entire running time.
  • Gulliver's Travels (1996): Live-action television mini-series starring Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen. In this version Dr. Gulliver has returned to his family from a long absence. The action shifts back and forth between flashbacks of his travels and the present where he is telling the story of his travels and has been committed to an asylum. It is notable for being one of the very few adaptations to feature all four voyages, and is considered the closest adaptation to the book despite taking several liberties, such as Gulliver not returning home between each part.
  • Albhutha Dweepu (2005) A Malayalam Movie based upon Gulliver's Travels, features Prithviraj and Mallika Kapoor in the prominent roles besides 300 dwarfs all through the movie. This movie was later dubbed to Tamil in 2007.
  • Gulliver's Travels (2007) Theatrical adaptation of all four travels. Dramatised by Brian Wright, with music from David Stoll. Performed by Masque Youth Theater in Northampton.
  • Gulliver's Travels (2008) Musical adaptation of all four travels by Chris Chambers and Andy Rapps. Performed at The Minack Theatre, Cornwall in 2008 by The Mitre Players.

See also

References

  1. ^ Gulliver's Travels: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Palgrave Macmillan 1995 (p. 21). The quote has been misattributed to Alexander Pope, who wrote to Swift in praise of the book just a day earlier.
  2. ^ Internet Archive: Details: Gulliver's Travels
  3. ^ "Chris O'Dowd: The IT Man From The IT Crowd". SuicideGirls.com. 09 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-11. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).

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