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A Perfect Vacuum Paperback - 1983
by Stanislaw Lem; Michael Kandel (Translator)
Summary
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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Reviewing nonexistent books is not Lem's invention; we find such experiments not only in a contemporary writer, Jorge Luis Borges (for example, his "Investigations of the Writings of Herbert Quaine"), but the idea goes further back-and even Rabelais was not the first to make use of it.
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- Title A Perfect Vacuum
- Author Stanislaw Lem; Michael Kandel (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 238
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Date 1983-04-20
- ISBN 9780156716864 / 0156716860
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 5.52 x 0.61 in (21.84 x 14.02 x 1.55 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Imaginary books and libraries
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 78014076
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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