Menippean satire. (That means Plain Awesome, for all'y'all greasers.)Beloved by Erasmus. First recognizable science fiction in the European tradition, mirroring in "The True History" and the "Icaromenippus" Wells' later The First Men in the Moon. Volume presents irreverant portraits of classical ...
[These notes were made in 1983; I read an edition translated by Paul Turner:]. The two stories share a certain fecundity of incident and invention. But from just the evidence here, I'm not at all sure how scholars have come to the conclusion that the dubious Ass is by the same author as True Histor...
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