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Istruzioni alla servitù

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Come e qualmente i Servitori possano e debbano disubbidire, confondere, ingannare, ridicolizzare, truffare, svergognare, umiliare i loro Padroni. Tale è l’oggetto a cui si dedica questo irresistibile trattatello, che accompagnò Swift per più di trent’anni e fu pubblicato infine nell’anno della sua morte, il 1745. Ad esso Swift confessò di dare grande importanza: e lo si può ben capire, non solo per l’incessante presenza, in queste pagine, del genio comico, ma per il loro valore in qualche modo di beffardo messaggio testamentario.
Di fatto, nell’immemoriale guerra tra Servi e Padroni, questo trattatello, pur ostentando una sventata leggerezza, segna una data davvero storica e augusta. Qui Swift ha predisposto un vero manuale di sabotaggio, che ogni lettore accorto potrà facilmente trasporre dalla cucina a tutti gli altri possibili luoghi. Mostrandoci il Servitore che vessa il Padrone e lo sfrutta in ogni modo, egli ha leso l’aureola della Sovranità ben più gravemente che con un pamphlet di immediato tema politico. E insieme ha tracciato una Piccola Antropologia del Risentimento destinata ad avere molta fortuna. Ma bisognerà anche dire che Swift non sarebbe quell’immenso artista che è se per lui l’occasione, l’esempio non valessero anche e innanzitutto di per sé: così, anche trascurando le trasparenti applicazioni ‘ad altro’ di questo testo, non si può non rimanere incantati (ed esilarati) di fronte al quadro di nefandezze domestiche, descritte in ogni loro minuzia, che Swift ci offre, condensando a volte in poche righe intere epopee di dispetti e rappresaglie che dovevano essersi depositate per secoli, insieme alla polvere nelle case patrizie inglesi.

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift is an Irish writer, political critic, and clergyman. He published many books and literature, the most important and most famous of which was "Gulliver's Travels", which includes four parts.
Jonathan Swift, one of the first critics of the English language, was a noted political writer, poet, and clergyman. He was born in Ireland and lost his father at an early age to be taken care of by his uncle.
With the beginnings of the glorious revolution in Ireland he was forced to emigrate to England, where he worked with Sir William Temple and got to experience a life of luxury and power. At a young age, he often moved between Ireland and England, and Swift entered the Church of Ireland at the same time as his poor cousin in the Church of England.
When he returned to Ireland he held the position of Dean of Saints at Patrick's Cathedral and continued to do so until his death. As a writer, he wrote most of his works under pseudonyms, and today we mention his best satirical prose work, Gulliver's Travels.
Gulliver's Travels, his most famous work, was first published on September 28, 1726 and modified in 1735, and it is considered a classic English literature, and many were mistaken in thinking that it was a children's book and in fact it was satirical prose. He mocks not only British policy against the Irish but also the oppression of the poor.|Swift lived for a long time in Trim, and a frequent satirical festival called the Trim Swift Festival was held.

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