Never was it more up to date than today - Swift's "Gulliver" in the valid German translation for the anniversary! Every child knows Gulliver's travels to Lilliput and the Giants. And yet Swift's fantasy saga is above all an impressive reading adventure for adults - profound, amusing, subversive and disillusioning -, a timelessly valid general account of human stupidity and hubris, and even a particularly early form of political satire: Gulliver's experiences in foreign realms, which are realistic down to the last detail with an inexhaustible love of fables, are peppered with polemical sideswipes on state, church or the legal system. To mark the author's 350th birthday on 30 November 2017, Christa Schuenke's congenial translation will now be published in the newly designed Manesse Library - for all those who still consider man the crown of creation. A classic, like e.