Identity in Political Parable: Ion Eremia's novel "Gulliver in the Land of Lies"

Abstract

Ion Eremia's novel "Gulliver in the Land of Lies" (manuscript finished in 1958) is one of the most successful political parables in Romanian post-war literature. On the background of the classical literary model of J.

Swift the author presents a pregnant characterization of the totalitarian regime of Gh. Gheorghiu-Dej comparable to Orwell's "1984".

Keywords

• Ion Eremia
• political parable