La batalla entre els llibres antics i moderns

by Jonathan Swift, Josep Maria Nadal Suau (Contributor), Dolors Udina (Translator)

96 pages, Paperback

Published November 19, 2025

About the author

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier—or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".

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¿Está todo escrito (y los modernos no hacen sino dar vueltas una y otra vez a lo mismo) o la literatura es un ser vivo que envejece e incorpora la sabiduría anterior mejorándola?
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