Jonathan Swift

An oversized, slipcase-housed, art book edition of GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, Jonathan Swift’s fantastical travelogue and piercing satire of imperialism, now illustrated with a vast suite of drawings from the renowned Italian graphic artist Lorenzo Mattotti, and original essays from comedian Patton Oswalt and scholar Elizabeth Bellamy. A surgeon turned castaway, Lemuel Gulliver sails into the absurd and the sublime in Jonathan Swift’s savage satire. He awakens shipwrecked among the six-inch citizens of Lilliput, later towers beneath the colossal gaze of Brobdingnagians. He debates floating philosophers in the airborne island of Laputa and recoils from the brutish Yahoos among the noble Houyhnhnms—horses more rational than man. Each voyage peels back the illusion of civilization, revealing hypocrisy, pride, and folly in human nature and the constructions of society. Now illustrated by the celebrated cartoonist, illustrator, fine artist and filmmaker Lorenzo Mattotti, with a suite of over sixty five illustrations, this kaleidoscopic adventure tale and scathing indictment human hubris is as bitingly funny and unnervingly prescient as ever. A stunning new entry in Beehive Books award-winning Illuminated Editions series, this volume is housed in a shimmering die-cut sculpturally embossed slipcase, printed on uncoated acid-free paper, and published in an oversized 9x12" trim format.

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Dzhonatan Svift - blestjaschij pisatel-satirik i odin iz samykh pronitsatelnykh umov anglijskoj literatury XVIII veka. Ego tetralogija "Puteshestvija Gullivera" davno stala klassikoj - eto ne prosto zakhvatyvajuschie prikljuchenija, a ironichnaja satira na chelovecheskie i obschestvennye poroki. Lemjuel Gulliver, skromnyj korabelnyj vrach, otpravljaetsja v morskoe plavanie i posle korablekrushenija popadaet v sovershenno fantasticheskie miry. V odnom on stanovitsja nastojaschim gigantom sredi kroshechnykh liliputov, v drugom sam prevraschaetsja v igrushku dlja velikanov. Emu na puti vstretjatsja guigngnmy - razumnye loshadi, kotorye kazhutsja bolee mudrymi, chem sami ljudi, a takzhe strannye jekhu, v kotorykh on s uzhasom uznaet rod chelovecheskij. Kazhdaja novaja strana - eto absurdnyj, smeshnoj i inogda pugajuschij mir, otrazhajuschij nashi sobstvennye slabosti, zabluzhdenija i gubitelnye strasti. V etoj knige est vse: uvlekatelnyj sjuzhet, ostryj jumor, tonkaja satira i razmyshlenija o tom, chto zhe vse-taki delaet nas ljudmi... V nastojaschem izdanii originalnyj tekst romana privoditsja s parallelnym perevodom A. A. Frankovskogo, velikolepnogo znatoka anglijskoj literatury, v soprovozhdenii izyskannykh illjustratsij knizhnogo khudozhnika-grafika Ch. E. Broka, kotorye po-novomu raskryvajut atmosferu stranstvij Gullivera. V oformlenii forzatsev ispolzovany izvestnye illjustratsii frantsuzskogo khudozhnika Zh. Granvilja. Parallelnyj tekst, privedennyj v knige, delaet ee osobenno poznavatelnoj i poleznoj dlja izuchenija anglijskogo jazyka. Podarochnoe oformlenie, tverdyj pereplet, belaja bumaga, illjustratsii, krasivyj maket i tsvetnaja lenta ljasse dobavljajut knige izyskannost i privlekatelnost. Ee mozhno priobresti ne tolko dlja svoej kollektsii, no i v kachestve podarka dorogim i blizkim ljudjam.