similarity of theme or ideas. Examples: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry ; Dante’s Inferno and Philip Roth’s Sabbath’s Theatre ; Fielding’s Tom Jones and Martin Amis’s The Rachel Papers . Superb concept. I’ve bought two of the pairings – Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels /Michel Houellebecq’s Atomised and Dostoevsky’s Crime