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È difficile trovare nella letteratura occidentale una condanna dell’intera umanità paragonabile a quella contenuta nel capolavoro di Swift. I quattro libri che compongono il romanzo, pubblicato anonimo nel 1726, sono il resoconto di altrettanti viaggi immaginari compiuti dal protagonista, Lemuel Gulliver, medico di bordo nella flotta britannica. Le sue paradossali esperienze a contatto con mondi straordinari popolati da esseri viventi dalle proporzioni o dalle abitudini inconsuete offrono lo spunto per una critica radicale delle istituzioni e dei comportamenti umani. La satira crudele di Swift prende di mira tutti i valori del mondo occidentale – dalla religione alla scienza, dalla politica alla cultura – fino a minacciarne le radici stesse. Ma il genio dell’autore ha dato a quest’opera amara, costruita come un prodigioso giocattolo meccanico, un assoluto equilibrio d’insieme: il suo terribile significato allegorico è accessibile solo a chi può e vuole intenderlo, e non va mai a scapito della perfezione narrativa e della felicità di invenzione che ne hanno decretato la fortuna anche come libro di amena lettura e addirittura, con opportuni tagli, anche come classico per l’infanzia.
- ISBN: 8811361044
- Casa Editrice: Garzanti
- Pagine: 320
- Data di uscita: 25-10-2002
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imagine if you lived in the 1700s and this was like...the most fun book available. screaming and crying. so grateful to live in a time when the only reason i read this book is because its cover is pretty, and not because i live a life of suffering and no running water and my idea of a raging good time Leggi tutto
Okay, I didn't finish this sucker. It was poor. I was kind of shocked. I was thinking why does no one point out that this is a giant rip off of Honey I Shrunk the Kids and Honey I Blew Up the Kid? It's painfully obvious. I don't see why this Danial Defoe mope has not had his ass sued, maybe he avoid Leggi tutto
Tiny manifestations of human social models One of the earliest forms of satire, just as Twains Yankee and Cervantes Don Quichote, but not that good https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... That´s simply because Swift isn´t such a talented, solid writer as Cervan Leggi tutto
Lemuel Gulliver was the first who discovered the theory of relativity: he comprehended that everything in the world is relative therefore while amongst Lilliputians he is a giant, amongst Brobdingnagians he is a midget. Eccentricity excellently stands against the erosion of time – much better than an Leggi tutto
هي مجموعة صفعات متتالية على وجه البشرية جمعاء..فعندما ترفضك الجياد الناطقة بلطف..لانها اكثر منك تحضرا و رشدا..اذن فلتعد يا "جاليفر "من رحلاتك الاربعة..حزينا كسيرالهذه الروايات مكانة خاصة في قلبي..فهي أول رحلاتي الطويلة لعالم الفانتازيا والخيال بلا حدود..فمن خلال الترجمة الرشيقة للعبقري كامل الكيلاني Leggi tutto
"The rats on board carried away one of my sheep;" "Care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man’s goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning;" It seems that I had a completely incorrect opinion of what Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travel
“Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.” Swift’s masterpiece, brilliant satire Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726. Swift lived in the 18th century, times of great societal changes when the legacy of Enlightenmen Leggi tutto
Everyone remembers poor Gulliver in breeches and three-cornered hat, pinned down with cords on a beach, by an army of minute soldiers. A young boy’s nightmare, no doubt, but there is much more to this book than this rosy image, reproduced endlessly on the pediments of toy shops and theme parks. This Leggi tutto
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