10:08 am in Lem, Stanisław, Poland, science fiction | No Comments
From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
by Stanisław Lem (1977)
Caught up in local endless hallucinations amidst local revolution during the Eighth Futurological Congress and critically wounded, Ijon Tichy is frozen to await a future cure.
10:02 am in Lem, Stanisław, Poland, Recommended, science fiction, short stories | No Comments
Fables for the Cybernetic Age by
Stanisław Lem (1975).
A collection of fairy-tale-ish science fiction stories focusing on the adventures of Trurl and Klapaucius, two best friends and rival intelligent robot “constructors”.
7:01 pm in fiction, Gombrowicz, Witold, Poland, Recommended | No Comments
by Witold Gombrowicz (1937)
A madcap comic parody about a 30-year-old dragged back to secondary school, where everyone believes him as another poseur juvenile, “inclined to pose in order to appear grown up”.