Frigyes Karinthy 1 hr 36 min read

A satirical undersea 'Gulliver' voyage to the kingdom of the Oihas, where women rule and men are a lesser species.

Frigyes Karinthy's 1921 Hungarian novel is a biting, Swiftian satire of the war between the sexes, sending its narrator beneath the sea to a matriarchal civilization. Sharp, funny, and provocative, it's a classic of Central European speculative satire. Read it for a mordant, inventive philosophical fantasy from one of Hungary's great wits.

In its time

Published in 1921, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

1 hr 36 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).