Translated from the Hungarian
Voyage to Faremido & Capillária
Gulliver’s Fifth and Sixth Voyages
Frigyes Karinthy
Between 1916 and 1921 Karinthy wrote two more voyages for Swift’s Gulliver: one to a nation of thinking machines, and one to a kingdom of women at the bottom of the sea.
Editions
Forthcoming
The app
Learn Hungarian by reading Karinthy: the original beside our translation, read aloud, with every word glossed.
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The book
In 1916, with Europe tearing itself apart, Karinthy sent Gulliver on a fifth voyage: to Faremido, a world of serene machines who speak in music and regard organic life as a disease, a book about artificial minds written a century early. Five years later, a sixth voyage: to Capillária, an undersea empire ruled by women, where men are kept and the old war between the sexes turns literal. Darker, and just as sharp. Both novels are short and startlingly modern, and both are here complete in a new English translation, made directly from the Hungarian. The only earlier one left print in 1978.
In the app
The original and the translation, side by side.
The author’s words align line by line with a clear English translation: two columns on iPad, a paired reading flow on iPhone.
Every line, read aloud.
Hear how the language actually sounds: its weight, its rhythm, not just how it looks on the page.
Notes for the line you’re on.
Tap any line for the grammar, the words, and the context behind it, written by us, for this text. An editor at your elbow.
Read aloud, and hear how you did.
Read a line yourself and the edition scores it on your phone: the whole line first, then sound by sound. Your voice never leaves the device.
The particulars
- Translation
- Public-domain Hungarian (Karinthy, d. 1938; published 1916 and 1921). English translation © 2026 1732 Studios, LLC.
- Method
- The translations are our own, drafted with machine assistance and verified line by line. How the editions are made.
- The app
- The first chapter is free: the complete app, every feature. One unlock covers the rest, yours forever, $4.99. No subscription, no ads.
- Privacy
- Speech analysis runs on device. Your reading and your voice never leave your phone.