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Voyage to Faremido and Capillaria
| Author: | Frigyes Karinthy |
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Living Books, 1966 Original Hungarian publication, 1921 Original Hungarian publication, 1916 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Voyage to Faremido (Hungarian: Utazás Faremidóba, 1916) is an utopian-satirical novel by Frigyes Karinthy. Written as a travel of Gulliver, it is a fictional "shipwreck" of a WWI pilot on a planet whose intelligent inhabitants are inorganic beings. The closing chapters elaborate that these beings not only understand the secrets of nature, but they are the secret of nature themselves -- they are nature personified. Like Kazohinia (a related roman), it is also a satirical presentation of the contemporary human society (Faremido was written in WWI, Kazohinia in the years preceding WWII).
Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy's fantastic novel Capillaria (Hungarian: Capillária, 1921), which depicts an undersea world inhabited exclusively by women, recounts, in a satirical vein reminiscent of the style of Jonathan Swift (author of Gulliver's Travels), the first time that men and women experience sex with one another.
Expressing a pessimistic, perhaps misogynistic, view of women, the novel suggests that, with disastrous effect, women, who are emotional and illogical, dominate men, the creative, rational force within humanity, who represent the builders of civilization.
The males, known as bullpops, are of small stature. They spend their time building and rebuilding tall, complex, rather phallic, towers that the gigantic women destroy as quickly as these structures are erected. Meanwhile, the females engage in sexual adventures, surviving by eating the brains of the miniature men, who have become little more than personified male genitals.
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