Capillaria
Fantasy | |
| Publisher | Corvina Press |
|---|---|
Publication date | 1921 |
Published in English | 1965 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover & paperback) |
| Preceded by | Voyage to Faremido |
Capillaria (
Expressing a pessimistic view of gender relations, the novel is set in a world where women, portrayed as 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, suggestively
The undersea kingdom is mentioned in the comic book version of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.[full citation needed]
A readily available summary of the relatively rare novel's plot is provided in The Dictionary of Imaginary Places.[1]
Adaptations
A radio dramatisation of Capillaria titled Voyage to Capiilaria was transmitted on BBC Radio 3 on 17 February 1976. It was adapted for radio by George Mikes and produced and directed by Martin Esslin. It featured the voices of John Rowe as Gulliver, Jane Wenham as the Queen of Capillaria, as well as Norma Ronald, Garard Green and others.[2]
Related works
Capillaria is the sequel to Karinthy's 1916 novel, Voyage to Faremido, in which the protagonist is transported from the battlefields of World War I to Faremido, where he encounters men of steel with musical voices and brains composed of a "mixture of quicksilver and minerals."[3] The two works are presented by the author as the fifth and sixth journeys of Gulliver.
Some publishers have released the two works in a combined volume, one German edition using the title The New Travels of Lemuel Gulliver (
See also
References
- ^ Manguel, Alberto, and Gianni Guadalupi. The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980, p. 66-8
- ^ "Voyage to Capiilaria". BBC Genome Project. BBC.
- ISBN 9780450038754.
Sources
- Karinthy, Frigyes (1916). Utazás Faremidóba; Gulliver ötödik útja (in Hungarian). Budapest: Athenaeum. [1]
- Karinthy, Frigyes (1921). Capillária (in Hungarian) (first ed.).
- Karinthy, Frigyes (1965). Voyage to Faremido. Capillaria. Introduced and translated by Paul Tabori. Budapest: Corvina Press. [2]
- Karinthy, Frigyes (1966). Voyage to Faremido. Capillaria. Introduced and translated by Paul Tabori. New York: Living Books. [3]
- Karinthy, Frigyes (1976). Utazás Faremidóba. Capillária (in Hungarian). Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó.
- Karinthy, Frigyes (1983). Die neuen Reisen des Lemuel Gulliver (in German). Translated by Hans Skirecki. Berlin: Verlag Das Neue Berlin. [4]
- Manguel, Albert; Gianni Guadalupi (1999) [1980]. The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. ISBN 9780151005413.
External links
- Karinthy Frigyes, Capillária. (in Hungarian) (complete text online)
- Frederiko Karinthy, Vojaĝo al Faremido, Kapilario, tradukis: Lajos Tarkony, Hungara Esperanto-Asocio, Budapest, 1980. (in Esperanto) (complete text online through archive.org)
- Frigyes Karnithy timeline from the Frankfurt '99 Non-profit Organisation
- Lóránt Czigány. "The Grotesque: Frigyes Karinthy". A History of Hungarian Literature: From the Earliest Times to the mid-1970s.
- "Hungarian Authors". The Hungarian Book Foundation. Archived from the original on 2005-04-12.
- Capillaria title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database