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		<title>A Void</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Georges Perec (1969)

Born out of self-imposed formalist grid of lipogram, a parody thriller loaded with plots and subplots, pursuits, vengeance and trails, engrossing and well-written despite the missing 'e' letter throughout the whole novel. ]]></description>
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		<title>Heart of a Dog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by Mikhail  Bulgakov (1925)

A renowned Moscow scientist implanted the pituitary's gland and the testes of a dead criminal into a stray dog with the unexpected result of Sharik turning into a complete human. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Futurological Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>The Cyberiad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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”.]]></description>
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		<title>Ferdydurke</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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”.]]></description>
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