text: [{"text_idx": "#000002", "text": "Els llibres i jo... Per que\u0300 llegeixo?"}, {"text_idx": "#000003", "text": "BlogVi\u0301deosSortejosBook TagsEntrevistesTraduccionsRessenyes de teatreLlibres vs. Pel\u00b7li\u0301cules"}, {"text_idx": "#000004", "text": "Llibres infantilsA\u0300lbums il\u00b7lustratsLlibres divulgatiusCo\u0300mics i novel\u00b7la gra\u0300ficaLlibres per jovesCo\u0300mics i novel\u00b7la gra\u0300ficaLlibres per adultsBiografies, assajos i diarisCo\u0300mics i novel\u00b7la gra\u0300ficaGuies i manualsLiteraturaTeatrePoesiaAutors IndiesRevistes1-10A-CD-GH-JK-MN-PQ-ST-WX-Z"}, {"text_idx": "#000005", "text": "A\u0300lbums il\u00b7lustratsLlibres divulgatiusCo\u0300mics i novel\u00b7la gra\u0300fica"}, {"text_idx": "#000006", "text": "Biografies, assajos i diarisCo\u0300mics i novel\u00b7la gra\u0300ficaGuies i manualsLiteraturaTeatrePoesia"}, {"text_idx": "#000018", "text": "[ENG] A voyage to Lilliput"}, {"text_idx": "#000019", "text": "Title: A voyage to Lilliput"}, {"text_idx": "#000020", "text": "Synopsis: Gulliver\u2019s Travels, and in particular \u2018A Voyage to Lilliput\u2019, was, in the words of its author,\nwritten to vex rather than to diver the world. Ever since its first publication in 1726, it has managed consistently to provoke both responses. The fantastically inventive fictional world Swift\ncreated accommodated satire on the state of man still unsurpassed in its savagery, its indignation and its humour."}, {"text_idx": "#000021", "text": "Last year I visited Hay-on-Wye, the first booktown in the world, and brought many books with me, including a Lilliputian edition of \u201cGulliver\u2019s\nTravels\u201d Part I (probably the most famous one)... \u201cA voyage to Lilliput\u201d."}, {"text_idx": "#000022", "text": "After suffering a shipwreck, surgeon Lemuel Gullivert swims towards an island that happens to be inhabited by small humans. At first they will\ntake him prisoner, but our protagonist will gain the emperor's trust, His Majesty Golbasto Momaren Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue."}, {"text_idx": "#000023", "text": "Jonathan Swift creates an exotic and silly civilization that mirrors our own society: the insatiable ambition of emperors\nand kings, rivalries between countries... I\u2019m pretty sure Swift thought of England and France when writing about the enmity between Lilliput and Blefuscu, two empires \u00abparted\nonly by a channel of eight hundred yards wide\u00bb and engaged in an obstinate war to decide the correct way of breaking eggs."}, {"text_idx": "#000024", "text": "He even describes human nature pretty accurately: ignorance, envy, narrow-mindedness... For example, Lilliputian\nphilosophers prefer to think Gullivert fell from the moon or the stars than to accept their beliefs are wrong \u00abbecause it is certain, that a hundred mortals of your bulk, would, in short time, destroy all the fruits and cattle"}, {"text_idx": "#000025", "text": "There are even some deep reflections about our way of life, which hasn\u2019t changed much from the 18th century... Gulliver\u2019s clock is\ndescribed the following way by the Lliliputians that find it in his pocket: \u00abHe put this engine to our ears, which made an incessant noise like that of a water-mill: and we conjecture it is\neither some unknown animal, or the god that he worships: but we are more inclined to the latter opinions, because he assured us, (if we understood him right, for he expressed himself very\nimperfectly) that he seldom did anything without consulting it.\u00bb"}, {"text_idx": "#000026", "text": "Gulliver imitates the elegant and delicate writing style of famous explorers and narrators while describing all kinds of absurd adventures. It is supposed to sound pompous and serious, but ends up causing the contrary effect (which reminds me of \u201cThe\nAdventures of Baron Munchausen\u201d by Gottfried August Bu\u0308rger)."}, {"text_idx": "#000027", "text": "Politics, hypocrisy, conspiracies... they are all wrapped in satire and ready to upset and entertain readers throughout\ntime. Are you ready to travel with Gulliver?"}, {"text_idx": "#000028", "text": "Fes volar les meves paraules:"}]