Una humilde propuesta
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Sin desvelar su propuesta, podemos decir que Swift hace todo lo posible para apoyar sus argumentos, incluyendo cálculos que muestran los beneficios financieros que de ella derivarían.
La ironía con la que el autor hace esta crítica social es la clave del texto y debe ser la clave de su lectura.
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"La propuesta de Jonathan Swift contra la crisis"
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin in 1667. Although he spent most of his childhood in Ireland, he considered himself English, and, aged twenty-one, moved to England, where he found employment as secretary to the diplomat Sir William Temple. On Temple's death in 1699, Swift returned to Dublin to pursue a career in the Church. By this time he was also publishing in a variety of genres, and between 1704 and 1729 he produced a string of brilliant satires, of which Gulliver's Travels is the best known. Between 1713 and 1742 he was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin; he was buried there when he died in 1745.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5"A Modest Proposal" is definitely the strongest work here. And given how it is written, I can believe that people reading it today might not understand that it is satire--though how they can miss it being announced as satire on the cover of every volume it is in, in the intro, in every short summary, etc etc, is beyond me.
"An Argument..." and "A Discourse..." both have some good bits. "A Meditation" is clever and very short. "The Battle" requires a background in Swift's contemporaries that I simply do not have (even with the brief notes saying who they were). Also, there are parts of it missing, and there is no way to know how long or important those parts might have been to the story itself. I can see this piece being funny to those who know the many authors mentioned. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Humorous - great satire! Although I admit that I read this one to increase my % to goal on 1001 books to read before you die...
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This 59-page volume includes five of Swift's satirical writings. The well-known "A Modest Proposal" presents a clever plan to cure both poverty and overpopulation in Ireland and supply the rich with some tasty new treats in the process. "A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit" and "An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity in England" deal with various religious topics. "The Battle of the Books" takes aim at the writers and thinkers of Swift's time who would disparage the ancient, classic authors, claiming to have done so much better themselves. There's also the tiny "A Meditation Upon a Broomstick," a deadpan parody that he inserted into a book containing a collection of mini-sermons as a practical joke. (The person he played the prank on, we're told, could not actually tell the difference.)The continued fame of "A Modest Proposal" is unquestionably well-deserved. It's extremely readable, darkly funny, sharply incisive, and still sadly relevant. The other pieces in this collection were somewhat more difficult going, though, partly because Swift's old-fashioned writing style is rather wordy and convoluted, but mostly because the modern reader (or at least this modern reader) lacks a lot of the cultural context with which to properly appreciate them. This edition did include a number of helpful footnotes, but that's not nearly the same thing as watching a contemporary writer jumping into a debate you're familiar with and skewering people you know. Still, despite all that, Swift's famous scathing wit does shine through. That's particularly true of "The Battle of the Books" in which he pulls no punches, utterly lambasting his targets with a jaw-droppingly impressive combination of highbrow erudition and low-down trash talk. There's no doubt about it: when Jonathan Swift disses you, you are dissed for the ages.Rating: This one's hard to rate. It's abundantly clear that Swift was a five-star satirist in his time, but most of these pieces haven't aged all that well, and some of the points he's making honestly seem rather wrong-headed and quaint to me at this late date. Let's call it 4/5.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5So..I didn't read the WHOLE book. Only the essay, but I couldn't find just the essay (couldn't find it on the goodreads...)
From reading just that essay, I would like to read the rest though, he's hilarious. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ah yes. Jonathan Swift, best known for Gulliver’s Travels (a story based on the corruption he saw around him, in modern times turned into a children's story). And Possibly A Modest Proposal (which I assume is assigned to students as an example of satire). I picked this book up for "A Modest Proposal", which I haven't read since high-school. This Dover Thrift Edition contains a number of other satirical stories - some more known than others. Unfortunately, satire works best when the reader understand the history and politics behind the story - and for me, the stories made logical sense, but I really didn't understand them.A Modest Proposal, on the other hand - is still a masterpiece in satire. It is worth reading - Jonathan Swift is clearly a talented author - he can make Eating Babies sound both reasonable, and terrifying, at the same time. Basically, if you aren't going to help the poor in any meaningful manner, lets think out of the box to solve this problem...
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I don't get it. What's so funny? I think this us a fine proposal, and easily instituted here in the USA. Eat 'em up, yum.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A satirical essay examining what could be done about the population to available food ratio in Ireland at the time. If you believed it was a serious essay you might have found yourself a little shocked.Doctor Swift explains the advantages to his proposal as far as to claim that it would be an advantage to have a new dish on the table.Shocking, short and entertaining.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brilliant.An exercise in extended irony, aimed at the English politicians who were willfully ignoring the Irish people devastated by the potato famine.
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Una humilde propuesta - Jonathan Swift
UNA HUMILDE PROPUESTA
Jonathan Swift
Ilustraciones de Raquel Marín
Traducción de María José Chuliá García
Título original: A Modest Proposal
© De las ilustraciones: Raquel Marín
© De la traducción: María José Chuliá García
Edición en ebook: agosto de 2014
© Nórdica Libros, S.L.
C/ Fuerte de Navidad, 11, 1.º B 28044 Madrid (España)
www.nordicalibros.com
ISBN DIGITAL: 978-84-15564-00-3
Diseño de colección: Diego Moreno
Corrección ortotipográfica: Ana Patrón y Susana Rodríguez
Maquetación ebook: Caurina Diseño Gráfico
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Una humilde propuesta
A modest proposal
Dedication
A modest proposal
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Una humilde propuesta
Hay cierto asunto que provoca un sentimiento de melancolía en aquellos que caminan por esta gran ciudad o que viajan por el país y se manifiesta cuando se encuentran los caminos, las calles y las puertas de las posadas plagadas de mendigos del sexo femenino, con tres, cuatro o seis hijos vestidos, todos ellos, con harapos e importunando a cada viajero para conseguir una limosna. Estas madres, en vez de dedicarse a trabajar para ganarse la vida honestamente, se ven forzadas a pasar todo su tiempo deambulando y mendigando para obtener el sustento de sus indefensas criaturas, las cuales, cuando crecen, terminan, bien convirtiéndose en ladrones por falta de trabajo, bien abandonando su país de origen para luchar en España a favor del pretendiente,¹ o vendiéndose a los terratenientes de Barbados.
Creo que todas las partes estarán de acuerdo en que tal prodigiosa cantidad de niños en los brazos de sus madres y a menudo de sus padres, o a sus espaldas, o