Los viajes de Gulliver

Spanish language

Published July 15, 2002

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978-84-670-0334-5
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Gulliver's Travels, or 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 1726 prose satire by the Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than divert it". The book was an immediate success. The English dramatist John Gay remarked "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery." In 2015, Robert McCrum released his selection list of 100 best novels of all time in which Gulliver's Travels is listed as "a satirical masterpiece".

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[…] a crew of pyrates are driven by a storm they know not whither; at length a boy discovers land from the top-mast; they go on shore to rob and plunder; they see an harmless people, are entertained with kindness, they give the country a new name, they take formal possession of it for the king, they set up a rotten plank or a stone for a memorial, they murder two or three dozen of the natives, bring away a couple more by force for a sample, return home, and get their pardon.

Sinds de publicatie van Gulliver’s travels in 1726 zijn bijna drie eeuwen verstreken. Ik kende slechts de kinderversie van het eerste van de vier verhalen, waarin Lemuel Gulliver na een schipbreuk aanspoelt op het eiland van de Lilliputters. Ook de andere delen zijn het best te karakteriseren als zeemansverhalen, maar dan wel met een sterke nadruk op …

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