Voyage to Faremido/Capillaria

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HUNGÁRIÁN LIBRARY Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938), humorista poet, playwright, and essayist, was one of the most prolific and popular but alsó one of the most originál and versatile Hungárián writers of his age. In the short növel Voyage to Faremido Karinthy presents a startlingly prophetic vision of a planet ruled by machines, the solasis whose language is music and who have achieved the utmost of automation and cybernetic superiority. Through the eyes of these inorganic and immortal beings, Man is only an unimportant and irritating rather than dangerous disease; an infestation., a parasitic germ. His wars, his ideals., his dreams and beliefs are ridiculously short-lived and unimportant. Yet the story is told without bitterness and pessimism. The Swiftian hero is only symbolic; Gulliver only serves as the spokesman of Karinthy's restless mind and scathing satire. Though the language is deliberately oldfashioned and mannered, the viewpoint and the conclusions of the book are utterly... Tovább

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HUNGÁRIÁN LIBRARY Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938), humorista poet, playwright, and essayist, was one of the most prolific and popular but alsó one of the most originál and versatile Hungárián writers of his age. In the short növel Voyage to Faremido Karinthy presents a startlingly prophetic vision of a planet ruled by machines, the solasis whose language is music and who have achieved the utmost of automation and cybernetic superiority. Through the eyes of these inorganic and immortal beings, Man is only an unimportant and irritating rather than dangerous disease; an infestation., a parasitic germ. His wars, his ideals., his dreams and beliefs are ridiculously short-lived and unimportant. Yet the story is told without bitterness and pessimism. The Swiftian hero is only symbolic; Gulliver only serves as the spokesman of Karinthy's restless mind and scathing satire. Though the language is deliberately oldfashioned and mannered, the viewpoint and the conclusions of the book are utterly contemporary and vividly valid. "How miraculous is the effect of music!" Karinthy writes in his epigraph. "As if someone pounded on the door of our soul from outside., from the world of Beauty and Reality; but we no longer understand the voice. It is this language they speak in Faremido. Gulliver, the wanderer, believed for a moment that he almost understood it. And that was when he wrote this book."
Capillaria, the "eighth journey of Gulliver" presents with mordant humour and inexhaustible inventiveness the ancient "war of the sexes." This country at the bottom of the sea is ruled by women, the dominant sex; and as the oihas are completely uninhibitedj free from intellectual complexes, morál hesitations and collective responsibilities, their domination cannot be challenged by the thumbsized bullpops, the Capillarian males. No misogynist^ Karinthy strips away the illusions Man has created about the ccfemale of the species" and the result is a disturbingly true and quite extraordinary book. Vissza