Travels of Gulliver

“Gulliver’s Journeys” by Jonathan Swift is the greatest satirical novel in the history of world literature, which paradoxically divided its fate into two parts. For children, it is a fascinating fantastic story about giants and lilliputs, and for adults, it is the sharpest, miserable and genius philosophical traktate, paralizing the defects of human society, politics, science and the human nature itself. The story revolves around the ship doctor Lemuel Guliver, who, as a result of ship crashes and rebellions, makes four incredible trips. First, he falls into **Liliputia**, where on the example of the small men, the Swift evil laughs smallness, arrogance, absurd courtyard intrigues and meaningless wars (there is a controversy about what end to break the cooked egg). Then the hero finds himself in the country of giants, where Gulliver himself, with all his European prejudices, looks like a small, fun and low-cost bulk. The third journey leads him to the flying island of Laputa, inhabited by rejected scientists and philosophers, whose absurd science brings only destruction. Finally, in the final journey, Gulliver opens the country of noble and intelligent horses – **guigngnams**, who are in slavery **ehu** – disgusting, dirty and foolish human-like beings, in which the hero with horrors recognizes the traits of his own kind. Written in the form of a rigorous path chronicle, the book gradually turns from a fun adventure to a deep existencial drama. Swift irresistibly breaks the mask of civilization from mankind, forcing the reader to look at himself and ask the question: do we really deserve to be called reasonable beings? **What about the book in three words:** Satira, Humanity, Illusion. **Who to read:** Lovers of subtle intellectual irony and political satire, lovers of classical fantasy and adventure, as well as all the adults who want to re-open a childhood story and be impressed with its real, explosive depth.