by Samuel Butler · Bruguera · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402086365
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«Erewhon o Allende las montañas» is Samuel Butler's utopian satire novel, published by Bruguera in paperback (317 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative follows the traveler Higgs, who discovers beyond some mountains the land of Erewhon, an anagram of 'nowhere'. In Erewhon machines are banned, illness is punished as a crime and crime is treated as an ailment; thus, the novel satirizes Victorian morality, religion and faith in technical progress.
First installment of the «Erewhon» series. The translation is by Ogier Preteceille; 1982 edition in the Libro Amigo collection (no. 902). Work originally published in 1872.
For lovers of Victorian satire and utopian fiction, with an interest in the origins of science fiction.
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels have remained in print since their initial publication. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted.
