Los viajes de Gulliver es una novela de Jonathan Swift, publicada en 1726. Aunque se la ha considerado con frecuencia una obra infantil, en realidad es una sátira feroz de la sociedad y la condición humana, camuflada como un libro de viajes por paises pintorescos (un genero bastante comun en la epoca).
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.
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.
Inútil recordarlo: política y mentira suelen ser buenas compañeras. Parece, sin embargo, que los políticos de hoy mienten con torpeza: 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...
In his travels, Gulliver will run into men 6 inches high or 22-meter giants, cross floating lands and meet wise beings who do not know the meaning of true or false.
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Gulliver travels across the sea from England and has an accident. He arrives in a country of very, very small people. What will they do with him? How will he talk to them? And why are the Big-enders fighting the Little-enders?
A satirical novel about the four journeys of Gulliver, who ventures out on the high seas again and again and meets extraordinary peoples there due to storms, bad weather, pirates and mutiny and experiences exciting and amusing adventures there. He meets among other things the country of Lilliput, giants or the horse creatures called Houyhnhnms.On closer reading, the work also turns out to be a stylish critique of the age of absolutism at the time.
Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians. But this is only the first in a long line of wonderful discoveries, as his adventures take him to other far-off lands such as Brobdingnag, populated by a race of giants, Luggnagg, home to the eternally ageingStruldbrugs, and the country of the Houyhnhnms, a race of benevolent talking horses.
Lilliput. Laputa. Brobdingnag. Houyhnhnmland. Join ship''s surgeon Lemuel Gulliver on his voyage to these fantastic lands, whose inhabitants, whether minute or giant, man or beast, reveal so much about so-called civilized society and the human condition. A masterpiece of satire, this parody on the travel-memoir genre is a vivid, phantasmagorical romp with serious undertones, as Swift''s irreverent wit pokes fun at the establishment.
- Esta edição é única;- A tradução é completamente original e foi realizada para a Ale. Mar. SAS;- Todos os direitos reservados.A Modest Proposal to Prevent the Children of Poor People from Being a B
- Esta edición es única;- La traducción es completamente original y se realizó para el Ale. Mar. SAS;- Todos los derechos reservados.Una modesta propuesta para evitar que los hijos de los pobres sean una carga para sus padres o su pais, y para que sean utiles al publico, comunmente conocida como Una modesta propuesta, es un ensayo satirico de Juvenal escrito y publicado anonimamente por Jonathan Swift en 1729. Swift sugiere que los irlandeses empobrecidos podrian aliviar sus problemas economicos vendiendo a sus hijos como alimento para los caballeros y damas ricos. Esta hiperbole satirica se burla de las actitudes despiadadas hacia los pobres, asi como de la politica irlandesa en general.
