th/18483760
Автор: Jonathan Swift
Издательство: Oneworld Classics
Год: 2012
Дополнительные характеристики
Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the Ancients, who argued that all essential knowledge was to be found in classical texts, and the Moderns, who claimed that contemporary learning superseded the old sources, this work shows Swift at his wittiest and most trenchant. In this early satire, various books in St.James's Library take on a life of their own and come into conflict with one another, in a pastiche of the heroic epic genre.