Feb 22, 2017 11:12 AM
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It is difficult to describe what Swift's masterpiece means to me. Gulliver's Travels is a book that I will probably be grappling with for the rest of my life, and I mean that in a good way. It is a savage jeud'esprit, a book about religion with no mention of God, a philosophical end - game written in unadorned prose, a deeply pessimistic statement on human nature, a lacerating attack on the primacy of Reason in Englightenment thought, a pacifist tract, and, yes, one of the funniest books ever written, An earlier Penguin edition had a foreword by British critic Michael foot that is one of the most penetrating pieces of literary analysis I have ever read.
