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Stanislaw Lem, Michael Kandel Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Northwestern University Press, Repr, 1999
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This is a collection of perfect yet imaginary reviews of nonexistent books. With insidious wit, the author beguiles us with a parade of delightful, disarmingly familiar inventions. "Lem is Harpo Marx and Franz Kafka and Isaac Asimov rolled up into one and down the white rabbit's hole" (Detroit News). A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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Doskonała próżnia
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Stanisław Lem; translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel
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Marlboro Press, The
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TriQuarterly Books
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Hydra Books
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Evanston, Ill, Illinois, February 1, 1997
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United States, United States of America
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Evanston, Ill. :, 1999
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1, US, 1999
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In A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem Presents A Collection Of Book Reviews Of Nonexistent Works Of Literature - Works That, In Many Cases, Could Not Possibly Be Written. Embracing Postmodernism's Games For Games' Sake Ethos, Lem Joins The Contest With Hilarious And Grotesque Results. Most Of The Reviews Target The Postmodern Infatuation With Antinarratives By Lampooning Their Self-indulgence And Exploiting Their Mannerisms. Lem Exposes The Limits Of Postmodern Fiction, Showing How Its Studious Self-consciousness Frequently Conceals Intellectual Paucity. Beginning With A Review Of His Own Book, Lem Moves On To Tackle (or Create Pastiches Of) The French New Novel, James Joyce, Pornography, Authorless Writing, And Dostoevsky, While At The Same Time Ranging Across Scientific Topics, From Cosmology To The Pervasiveness Of Computers.--book Jacket. Stanisław Lem ; Translated From The Polish By Michael Kandel.
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In A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem presents a collection of book reviews of nonexistent works of literature--works that, in many cases, could not possibly be written. Embracing postmodernism's "games for games' sake" ethos, Lem joins the contest with hilarious and grotesque results, lampooning the movement's self-indulgence and exploiting its mannerisms.
Beginning with a review of his own book, Lem moves on to tackles (or create pastiches of) the French new novel, James Joyce, pornography, authorless writing, and Dostoevsky, while at the same time ranging across scientific topics, from cosmology to the pervasiveness of computers. The result is a metafictional tour de force by one of the world's most popular writers.
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