Viaje al mundo subterráneo

Viaje al mundo subterráneo is one of the happiest satirical utopias in literature. The novel describes the journey of Niels Klim, who, like Alice, falls through a hole in the Earth and discovers that the interior of the Earth is a hollow space, with a central sun and small planets that orbit it. Captured by a dragon, he ends up on one of the planets, Nazar, and there he discovers the utopian civilization of the Potuans who, as a distorting mirror, serves to elaborate one of the fiercest satires on the human condition.

Ludvig Holberg is a playwright, novelist, poet, historian, essayist, teacher, and traveler of the Enlightenment era. Under the pseudonym Hans Mikkelsen he published the first of his great works, Peder Paars.