La battaglia dei libri

18th Century Comment Trolling 15 February 2020 - Moonta One of the reasons that books like this are interesting is because they show us that social media isn’t actually a new thing. Okay, these days, with computerisation and the second incarnation of the internet opens it up to so many more people, a Leggi tutto

The allegory of the bee and spider to describe the moderns vs. the ancients is brilliant. The battle scenes, parodies of Homer and Virgil, in this short work were hysterical.

As it happens with Swift, I'm lying on the floor with tears of laughter streaming down my face. It's a very short book and ends very abruptly, though. Gah, I can't even spoil it :/ I need to talk to someone who has read it!!!

Humour is an obligatory element in all true satire. Unquestionably, in the hands of certain writers, satire often takes the form of abuse or invective. Swift himself resorts to denunciation in the past part of his satirical work, Gulliver's Travels. But all honest satire must charm the readers by it Leggi tutto

Un pequeño libro que permite entender la actitud esquizofrénica del humano, siempre buscando dicotomías... Aunque quizá sea inevitable que en filosofía exista la división entre Antiguos y Modernos (acá los posmodernos no existen), no hay mejor manera de entender la postura de cada bando que con pera Leggi tutto

Swift writes a short satire about the constant battle between past and present. He paints a far less flattering picture of Renaissance/Enlightenment authors than of ancients, despite living in an age now viewed as a major turning point in Western thought. There are some colorful moments, but in the