Jonathan Swift
Los viajes de Gulliver (1726) es una novela satírica de Jonathan Swift. Presentándose como el "Dr. Lemuel Gulliver", pretendió divulgar sus viajes en los que se encuentra con una serie de culturas extrañas. Este estilo literario de la divulgación de viajes era común en ese entonces, incluyendo la invención de culturas extrañas y "salvajes", diseñadas deliberadamente para remover las conciencias de los británicos de la época. El viaje
...Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.
Gullivers Reisen ist das bekannteste Werk des irischen Schriftstellers, anglikanischen Priesters und Politikers Jonathan Swift. In der Originalfassung besteht das Buch aus vier Teilen und wurde 1726 unter dem Titel Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World in Four Parts By Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships veröffentlicht. Bekannt ist insbesondere die zweiteilige Kinderbuchausgabe, in welcher Gulliver
...I viaggi di Gulliver o Viaggi di Gulliver in vari paesi lontani del mondo è un romanzo che coniuga fantasia e satira in un'allegoria dell'Inghilterra e della Francia settecentesca nonché nell'animo umano, scritto sotto pseudonimo da Jonathan Swift.
L'opera s'inserisce, in chiave parodistica, anche nel genere letterario "utopistico", iniziato proprio in Inghilterra nel Rinascimento con Tommaso Moro che nel suo capolavoro, il romanzo L'Utopia,
Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting is the title of a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift. It also has appeared under the title Thoughts on Various Subjects. It consists of a series of short epigrams or apothegms with no particular connections between them.
It contains the quotation "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against
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