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Erewhon - Couverture souple

Butler, Samuel

 
9781573922043: Erewhon
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1573922048 ISBN 13 : 9781573922043
Editeur : Prometheus, 1998

Synopsis

Written in the tradition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, English novelist, essayist, and iconoclast Samuel Butler (1835-1902) describes an imaginary visit to a topsy-turvy country called Erewhon (an anagram of "nowhere"), where it is a punishable offense to be physically ill, but where criminality and immorality are looked kindly upon as treatable diseases. The English church is pilloried in the system of "Musical Banks," whose currency nobody believes in but everyone pretends to value. Universities teach courses on how to say nothing at great length, and all machines have been banned for fear that they will develop through evolution and enslave the citizens.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Written in the tradition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, English novelist, essayist, and iconoclast Samuel Butler (1835-1902) describes an imaginary visit to a topsy-turvy country called Erewhon (an anagram of "nowhere"), where it is a punishable offense to be physically ill, but where criminality and immorality are looked kindly upon as treatable diseases. The English church is pilloried in the system of "Musical Banks," whose currency nobody believes in but everyone pretends to value. Universities teach courses on how to say nothing at great length, and all machines have been banned for fear that they will develop through evolution and enslave the citizens.

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Éditeur
Prometheus
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1573922048
ISBN 13 
9781573922043
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
328
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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