Among the English translations of Karinthy's works are two science fiction novellas that continue the adventures of Swift's character Gulliver.

Voyage to Faremido is an early examination of artificial intelligence, with a pacifist theme,[1] while Capillaria is a polished and darkly humorous satire on the 'battle of the sexes'.

He started his writing career as a journalist and remained a writer of short, humorous blurbs until his death.

Karinthy cited Jonathan Swift as a major influence: from this arose the novel Voyage to Faremido (Utazás Faremidóba, 1916) and its sequel, Capillaria (1921).

Many of his novels and stories also deal with the difficulties of relationships between men and women, partly due to his unhappy second marriage.

He describes this experience in his autobiographical novel, Journey Round my Skull, (Utazás a koponyám körül), originally published in 1939; a reissue appeared in the Corvina Hungarian Classics series (Corvina Books, 1992)[4] and then as a NYRB Classic in 2008 with an introduction by neurologist Oliver Sacks.