Gulliver’s fifth and sixth voyages, in a new English translation.
1732 Studios publishes Frigyes Karinthy’s Voyage to Faremido and Capillária, complete, translated directly from the Hungarian.
Between 1916 and 1921, the Hungarian satirist Frigyes Karinthy wrote two more voyages for Swift’s Gulliver: one to a nation of thinking machines, and one to a kingdom of women at the bottom of the sea.
Torpedoed off the English coast, Gulliver is carried to Faremido, where the machines speak in music and regard organic life as a disease. They receive him kindly, study him closely, and tell him what they have concluded about his kind. Karinthy was writing about machine minds forty years before anyone said artificial intelligence.
Shipwrecked a second time, Gulliver sinks to Capillária. Its women are tall, serene, and content. Its men are the bulloks, creatures the size of a finger, who spend their lives raising towers toward the surface of the sea. Gulliver lectures the queen on man’s labor, man’s understanding, and man’s will. She listens with the same patience the machines did.
The two voyages were translated into English once, in 1965, and that edition left print in 1978. Voyage to Faremido & Capillária: Gulliver’s Fifth and Sixth Voyages is a new translation of both novels, complete, made directly from the Hungarian.
The particulars
- Both novels, complete, translated from the Hungarian by 1732 Studios
- On Amazon: Kindle $6.99, paperback $14.99
- We drafted the translation with machine assistance and checked every line against the original
- An app for learning Hungarian from the same text is in the works
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