"The ignorant man who thinks he's smart only because he has a diploma has to answer me."

This is a remarkable book that is very clever, entertaining, and thought provoking. Elsewhere, I have referred to it as "wise and foolish in equal measure, and thus great fun." It may be difficult to discern from

Tell me why some people get to present Lolita and I get him

A bold explorer travels into realms unknown, meets strange people and nations that reflect oddly and hilariously his own society... much the same as Gulliver's Travels, then, but this one didn't grab me nearly as well. The satire here doesn't seem to have anything in common with the modern day anymo

Cyrano era un espadachín, dramaturgo francés y libertino. Era irrespetuoso con la iglesia y en este libro lo demuestra (algo suave). Por su prosa uno puede darse cuenta, de que era un hombre muy inteligente.
La historia tiene algunos momentos en los cuales se pone muy denso, pero en general es entret

I’m fascinated by very very early science fiction novels and one of the most important of these pioneering works is Cyrano de Bergerac’s Journey to the Moon (or to give it its proper title L'Autre Monde: où les États et Empires de la Lune (The Other World: The States and Empires of the Moon). It was

"Ο άνθρωπος είναι ανώτερο από τα άλλα ζώα γιατί διαθέτει πνεύμα" και "Ο άνθρωπος είναι το μόνο σκεπτόμενο ον στο σύμπαν". Κάτι τέτοιες απόψεις άκουγε ο Συρανό ντε Μπερζεράκ και γελούσε ειρωνικά. Αν όλοι οι άνθρωποι διάβαζαν αυτό το βιβλίο θα καταλάβαιναν ότι είναι μάταιο να αντιληφθείς τον κόσμο αλλ

So... science fiction written before The Enlightenment; isn't that an oxymoron?

A Voyage to the Moon belongs on a shelf with Gulliver's Travels, Gargantua and Pantagruel, and Candide, but I suspect you'll have trouble finding the book in English, which is a shame. Fortunately Google Books has an ele