![]() The journey takes many forms: Gilgamesh searching for immortality Dante's trips to Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory and Wyatt and Billy's road trip in Easy Rider, among many others. Journeys of self-discovery appear in every genre, teaching us about the main character as well as ourselves. An amusing exercise in literary game playing. Gulliverian fantasy in which a castaway is washed up on the shore of the Commonwealth, where all the great characters of literature are to be found the hapless hero wanders around, repeatedly getting himself into difficulties and finding famous rescuers, eventually cultivating a kind of heroism. The novel is light and pleasant, rather in the manner of Christopher Morley. John Myers Myers is remembered for SILVERLOCK, a recursive fantasy that centres on a picaresque voyage by a shipwrecked protagonist through the 'Commonwealth' (of literature), where he encounters numerous characters and situations from world literature and mythology – the Ass of Apuleius, Beowulf, the Green Knight, Robin Hood, Dante's Hell, Friar John from RABELAIS, and many more. ![]()
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