Lemuel Gulliver
Professor Tarantoga, in his fictional preface for "The Star Diaries" lists Tichy's four literary predecessors: Baron Münchausen, Pavlushka Masloboinikov (one of the fictitious narrators from Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's satirical novel "The History of a Town"), Lemuel Gulliver, and Maître Alcofribas Nasier (fictitious author of François Rabelais' series of satirical novels "Gargantua and Pantagruel"). Literary critics (real ones) offer other parallels to the character.