Star Diaries : Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy,9780156849050

Star Diaries : Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

by Lem, Stanislaw
ISBN13: 9780156849050
ISBN10: 0156849054
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1985-06-01
Publisher(s): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Summary

Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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""One of the most intelligent, erudite, and comic writers working today.""
In a firsthand account, Lem's hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy tells warped tales from the civilizations he discovers in a deep space galaxy so unlike our own that concepts of science, the rational mind, human progress, the sanctity of life, and motherhood all no longer apply
In their place, Tichy finds sadomasochistic robots who speak a dialect much like Chaucerian English, killer potatoes with an appetite for spacecra
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