Small collected works

The collection includes works reflecting the various facets of the talent of the Irish writer Jonathan Swift (1667–1745): the immortal “Gulliver’s travels” - a fantastic parody of wanderings and adventure novels like “Robinson Crusoe” (almost overshadowed it in the minds of subsequent generations) and At the same time, the evil satire on the political life of England and Europe at the beginning of the 18th century, no less stinging “Barrel fairy tale”, directed against religious “zeal” (both Catholic and Protestant) and declared by church circles “blasphemous compositions”, “Battle of books”, immersing The reader in the vicinity of the literary polemic of the Swift era, essays and poems created on private occasions, but betraying the depth of the author’s ironic-sarcastic mind. After three centuries, the texts of Swift still retain the ability to resist any fanaticism, superstition, ignorance and stupidity, encourage reflection and reassessment of values, delight the originality of fiction, virtuosity of the genre game and artistry of the author’s reincarnation