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Gulliver's Travels influenced Micromégas (Micromegas)
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
The evidence
Voltaire met Swift's circle during his English exile and admired Gulliver's Travels. Micromégas turns Swift's play with scale outward into space: giants from Sirius and Saturn who find humanity tiny, quarrelsome and absurdly proud.
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