The genre of Menippeansatire is a form of satire, usually in prose, that is characterized by attacking mental attitudes rather than specific individuals
attack on the politician Callimedon. The oldest form of satire still in use is the Menippeansatire by Menippus of Gadara. His own writings are lost. Examples
literature. Of these, the most significant were Socratic dialogue and Menippeansatire. According to Bakhtin, the seriocomic genres always began with "the
regarded Bobok as one of the finest works in the literary tradition of Menippeansatire, and argues that it encapsulates many of the thematic concerns of Dostoevsky's