the Gulliver's Travels , in English GULLIVER' S Travels , translated into French under the name Voyages of the captain Lemuel GULLIVER at the 18th century) is a satirical novel written by Jonathan Swift in 1721.
A version censured and modified by its editor appears for the first time in 1726; it is only in 1735 that it will appear in full version.
It was translated for the first time into French under the name Voyages of the captain Lemuel GULLIVER at the 18th century, by the abbot Desfontaines. Besides this one wrote a continuation in two volumes, entitled New GULLIVER or Voyage of Jean GULLIVER, wire of the GULLIVER captain… .
Preludes
- 1705 : The Battle off the Books : Swift described an allegorical battle enters there the old and modern books
- 1706: Daniel Defoe publishes a Histoire of phantoms : “Has True Relation off the Apparition off One Mrs Veal, the Next Day After Her Death, At Canterbury, the 8th off September 1705”.
- 1719 : Defoe which did not publish yet its Robinson Crusoe written: Memoirs off sundry translations from the World off the Moon translated from the Lunar languages by the Author off the True-Born English Man , a satire of the culture and the policy English.
- 1720 : Defoe written to Life and Adventures off Mr. Duncan Campbell , a poetic and fantastic history putting in scene a dumb magician.
Four Gulliver's Travels
In 1721, it begins the Gulliver's Travels . This work, written with the first nobody and divided into four parts, marks a top of the Satire social and political through elements mixing, on the mode of the lampoon or narrative description, of the Philosophie, the Logique, the Fantastique and the Science-fiction.- Voyage in Lilliput , where one sees Lemuel GULLIVER, surgeon of navy, to sail towards Bristol. After a shipwreck, it is found on the island of Lilliput, whose inhabitants are dwarf S of six inches top (approx. 15 cm) which spend their time making the Guerre for futile reasons (side by which must be started the boiled eggs), just like the France and England; Swift tends to show there uselessness and ridiculous wars.
- Voyage in Brobdingnag , whose inhabitants are this time of the giants, is a violent criticism of the England and Humanité in general.
- Voyage in Laputa , which is next to, out of mirror, the flying island of Lagado. By deceiving the speculative Philosophy, the men lose any common direction there. It is a criticism of the Philosophie and speculation. The passage also criticizes the scientific “brilliances” which want to make “benefit” (against its liking if it is needed) the people from their brilliant innovations, without seeing that, very often, their inventions lead the people to the ruin.
- Voyage to the country of Houyhnhnms , populated country of beautiful and intelligent horses arrived at the top of the reason and wisdom (Houyhnhnms), but also of animals feeling reluctant by their aspect and their behavior (named Yahoos), which appear, with the great despair of GULLIVER, being of the human ones. Swift raises the question here: which is the difference between an human being and an animal? Is it real or simply apparent? Must one have shame to be a man?
These accounts, very rich, mix, by them relativizing, critical and reason, Folie and lampoon, Fantastique and Science-fiction. In this direction, Swift starts the era of the Lights and precedes Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, but also Edgar Allan Poe.
The flying island of Laputa was taken again by Hayao Miyazaki in the cartoon film the Castle in the sky .
Bonds
- “new GULLIVER or Voyage of Jean GULLIVER, wire of the GULLIVER captain…”, 2 {{E}} shutter in 2 volumes writes by Pierre-François Guyot Desfontaines, on the site of BnF
- a detailed analysis of the novel
- GULLIVER' S Travels (1939) - the feature-length film available in remote loading on the Internet Files
| Random links: | Dag Bjørndalen | One The Night | NGC 5641 | Stamps of Canada 2007 | Colli Orientali del Friuli Picolit |