shun Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 (edited) Satire Books and Mr. Dog Son of Dog: The Diabolical Satire of Journey to Virginland. Dating back to the Egypt of the 2nd millennium BCE, satire books (or parchments, as the case may be) have always played a powerful role as agents of societal change. With his novel Journey to Virginland, Armen Melikian joins the great luminaries of satire books as he mounts a systematic, fiercely witty critique of the state of the world, ensconcing his acerbic satire in a modern tale of discovery and release. To form an idea about the far-reaching impact of this genre, think of Horatian and Juvenalian satire, the medieval authors Al-Jahiz and Geoffrey Chaucer, early-modern wordsmiths such as François Rabelais and Jonathan Swift, and modern giants like Mark Twain, George Orwell, and Terry Pratchett. Today, while the storied tradition of this genre enters the fecund territory of the Internet, with sites such as The Giant Napkin and The Onion, Melikian’s outrageously inventive Journey to Virginland (the first Epistle of a trilogy) establishes a fresh benchmark for the genre. Click here to read: http://www.journeytovirginland.com/satire-books.htm Edited August 24, 2010 by shun Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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