Modesta proposta e outros textos satíricos
ISBN:
8571395977
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: UNESP
Pages no: 100
Edition language: Portuguese
Category:
Classics,
Humor,
Writing,
Essays,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Irish Literature,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Ireland,
Short Stories
This small collection contains 5 of Swift's satirical pieces. "A Modest Proposal" is definitely the best of them. It is strong, the writing is deadpan, and it is also the easiest for a modern reader to understand. It is excellent. I do know that people read it and don't understand it is satire. It i...
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Humorous - great satire! Although I admit that I read this one to increase my % to goal on 1001 books to read before you die...
Witty. Provoking. Macabre. And unbelievably mistaken by some of his contemporary fellowmen. "A Modest Proposal" is a masterpiece on how satire may be used for condemning human hypocrisy revealing the social issues unseen by the calculated blindness of many governors.The anthropophagy solution for wi...