Romanzo che narra gli strani viaggi di Gulliver, durante i quali verra a contatto con uomini piccoli 6 pollici o alti 22 metri, terre fluttuanti ed esseri saggi che non sanno il significato di vero o falso. Libro in lingua originale inglese con traduzione in italiano.
Jonathan Swift escribe esta sátira en 1729, una época en la que debido al desabastecimiento de productos de primera necesidad y las malas cosechas, la gente se moría literalmente de hambre. En este texto provocador, exquisitamente escrito y no exento de ironia, nos propone una solucion razonable para acabar con la hambruna, elevar la renta del pais y lo mas importante asegurar el futuro de todos los subditos del reino. Una humilde propuesta es, formalmente, una parodia satirica indispensable para entender la obra de Swift magistralmente ilustrada por Segei Furst.
I Viaggi di Gulliver e un capolavoro della letteratura mondiale, un romanzo che coniuga fantasia e satira. Racconta i viaggi dello sfortunato marinaio Dr. Gulliver in quattro strane isole popolate da esseri particolari: i microscopici Lillipuziani, i giganti Brobdingnaghiani, gli imbranati abitanti dellisola volante di Laputa e i saggi Houyhnhnms, cavalli razionali e parlanti. Acuto, fantasioso, simpatico e scritto con un linguaggio semplice e ironico fino allirriverenza, e in realta un aspro attacco alla vanita e allipocrisia delluomo. Ascoltare e leggere, da adulti, questo classico della letteratura per ragazzi, e una scoperta esplosiva di divertimento, ironia e profonda riflessione sulle piccolezze umane.Per fruire al meglio di questo Audio-eBook da leggere e ascoltare in sincronia leggi la pagina daiuto a questo link:https://help.streetlib.com/hc/it/articles/211787685-Come-leggere-gli-audio-ebook
The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mothers side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.
“La verdadera ironía es una expresión de sufrimiento, y el gran maestro de la ironía fue aquél que más sufrió: Swift.” T. S. Eliot
“Pensar en Swift es pensar en la ruina de un gran imperio.” William
Escrito irónico sobre la posibilidad de vender los hijos de los irlandeses pobres como alimento para los ingleses ricos, por el bien de la patria y de ambas clases sociales. La propuesta fue altamente criticada por su crudeza literaria, incomodando a las altas esferas de la monarquía por la crítica y desaprobación que había en las políticas que llevaron a Irlanda a una situación de deplorable miseria
In Gulliver''s Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver''s encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. A consumately skillful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver''s Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift''s alter ego plays tricks on us, and our gullibility uncovers one of the world''s most disturbing satires of the human condition.
'In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advancing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when bending mine eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high.' Lemuel Gulliver, ship's surgeon and castaway, has awoken in Lilliput, where the size of the tiny inhabitants makes their concerns and quarrels seem ridiculous. A second journey takes him to the kingdom of giants, where again his size gives him new insights into human behaviour. Then, after he is cast adrift by pirates, Gulliver visits a series of islands where learning is misdirected and immortality is only misery. Gulliver's final voyage brings him to the land of the Houyhnhnms, horses with reason, who share their domain with the brutish Yahoos. He returns to England a changed man. Swift's corrosive satire embraces all aspects of humanity. It is witty when dealing with foibles and frailty, bitterly angry when facing pride and stupidity, but compassionate and unsentimental when focused upon suffering.
Inútil recordarlo: política y mentira suelen ser buenas compañeras. Parece, sin embargo, que los políticos de hoy mienten con torpeza y, seguramente, a no pocos haría bien recordar las recomendaciones que algunos sagaces britanicos dejaron escritas alla a principios del siglo XVIII. Cuando la incipiente politica parlamentaria iba perfilando las modalidades de las que siguen viviendo nuestras democracias, Jonathan Swift y sus satiricos amigos descubrieron la siguiente verdad: el mentir bien a los ciudadanos no es cosa que se improvise; es un arte con todas sus reglas
Guliver''s Travels, first published in 1726, was read "from Cabinet-council to the Nursery". Written by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) it was and still is one of the greatest satires written on human nature. Captain Lemuel Gulliver takes voyages that end up at four fantastic places. The Lilliputians are only six inches tall. The land of Brobdingnag is populated with beings over sixty feet tall. He also visits a series of lands peopled by the most impratical groups. Lastly he visits a land ruled by horses where men are the laboring brutes. Guliver''s Travels was rated by George Orwell as one of the six most indispensable books in the world.
