Voyage to Kazohinia - Sandor Szathmari

Voyage to Kazohinia

By: Sandor Szathmari, Inez Kemenes (Translator)

Paperback | 9 October 2012 | Edition Number 1

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This classic dystopian satire has been compared to the likes of Brave New World, Gulliver''s Travels and The Wizard of Oz. Voyage to Kazohinia is a tour de force of twentieth-century literature--and it is here published in English for the first time outside of Hungary. S¡ndor Szathm¡ri''s novel chronicles the travels of a modern Gulliver on the eve of World War II. A shipwrecked English ship''s surgeon finds himself on an unknown island whose inhabitants, the Hins, live a technologically advanced existence without emotions, desires, arts, money, or politics. Soon unhappy amid this bleak perfection, Gulliver asks to be admitted to the closed settlement of the Behins, beings with souls and atavistic human traits. He has seen nothing yet. A massively entertaining mix of satire and science fiction, Voyage to Kazohinia has seen half a dozen editions in Hungary in decades since its original publication and remains the country''s most popular cult classic.

Industry Reviews
"A page-turner for both the adult as well as the adolescent reader, Voyage to Kazohinia is a classic waiting to be discovered by every literate person. This newly translated and profoundly transformative novel ought to be taught in high schools and colleges across the English-speaking world. " --David Mandler, PhD, English Teacher at Stuyvesant High School, New York City

"Massively entertaining! . . . Make room for the new Gulliver. He has brought home news out of Kazohinia." -- Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Out of Oz

"Written in 1935, Voyage to Kazohinia is a strikingly postmodern and open-ended dystopia that rightfully belongs among the twentieth-century classics of the genre. And it is unique in being less a strident political cautionary tale than it is a brilliantly mordant reflection on government, reason, and language." -Carter Hanson, Associate Professor of English, Valparaiso University

"[A] dystopian cult classic. . . . Gulliver washes up on the island of Kazohinia, which is populated by bizarre inhabitants . . . whose sense of morality and society force [him] to reconsider his own understanding of life, love, and death." -Publishers Weekly

"Highly entertaining. . . . Readers familiar with the classic Swift satire will find much to admire here, but those unfamiliar with Gulliver's Travels should still have a good time." -Booklist

"A satire on our world of power politics... clever and inventive." -- Allan Massie, The Wall Street Journal

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