He rose to instant fame in 1912 with the publication of his literary parodies called That's How YOU Write (Így írtok ti).

He makes use of elements of fairy tale construction and literary parody.

So Qvanten supplied the infiltrator with a letter full of literary parodies to excite the suspicions of his contacts in Finland.

He highhandedly declares that "literary parody expired" with Nathanael West.

Marías - forgive him, he was 19 when he began it - meant it as a literary parody, a postcard to the writers he was reading at the time.

The show's humour was based on surrealism and literary and media parodies, sprinkled with puns.

On Punch, Powell tried his hand at literary parody, scoring a bull's-eye on Kipling, with "If, on the rocks, without soda".

Panaev's literary parodies, some written in collaboration with Nekrasov, were widely read.

This week in the magazine, Louis Menand examines the tradition of literary parody.

If you regard them as people (rather than as literary parodies), they become embodiments of all the ridiculous extremes to which love can drive almost anybody.