Gulliver's Travels

Lemuel Gulliver, surgeon on a sunken ship, wakes up one day in Lilliput, where the tiny size of the inhabitants makes all their interests and disputes seem absurd. A second journey takes him to the kingdom of the giants, where this time his very size gives him new insight into human behavior. Falling into the hands of pirates who leave him adrift, Gulliver later visits a series of islands where knowledge misses the mark and immortality implies only suffering. The final journey takes him to the country of the Houyhnhnms, horses gifted with reason who share their domain with the Yahoos. When he returns to England, Gulliver is a changed man.

«Swift was declared insane in 1742, sixteen years after the publication of Gulliver's Travels, but the book, written when he still possessed his faculties, is dangerously sane and causes discomfort, precisely because it is inspired by an enormous lucidity and a great rationality. […]
Gulliver's Travels are written to dispel our blindness, to cure us of our unconscious ironies. Martin Price observes that “Gulliver is conceived as the hero of a comedy of incomprehension.” Given that each of us lives, to some extent, the comedy of incomprehension, we sympathize with Gulliver.»
[Harold Bloom]

“All modern American literature comes from a book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” [Ernest Hemingway]

Lemuel Gulliver, surgeon on a sunken ship, wakes up one day in Lilliput, where the tiny size of the inhabitants makes all their interests and disputes seem absurd. A second journey takes him to the kingdom of the giants, where this time his very size gives him new insight into human behavior. Falling into the hands of pirates who leave him adrift, Gulliver later visits a series of islands where knowledge misses the mark and immortality implies only suffering. The final journey takes him to the country of the Houyhnhnms, horses gifted with reason who share their domain with the Yahoos. When he returns to England, Gulliver is a changed man.

«Swift was declared insane in 1742, sixteen years after the publication of Gulliver's Travels, but the book, written when he still possessed his faculties, is dangerously sane and causes discomfort, precisely because it is inspired by an enormous lucidity and a great rationality. […]
Gulliver's Travels are written to dispel our blindness, to cure us of our unconscious ironies. Martin Price observes that “Gulliver is conceived as the hero of a comedy of incomprehension.” Given that each of us lives, to some extent, the comedy of incomprehension, we sympathize with Gulliver.»
[Harold Bloom]

Translation: Luzia Maria Martins

EAN: 9789896411817

Publication Date: 10/10

Number of Pages: 288

Format: 15.3 x 23.3 cm

Finish: Soft Cover

Weight: 446 g