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The Futurological Congress follows one of the adventures of character Ijon Tichy as he is caught up in a chemical attack. The book provides satire on both the social move towards a "chemically corrected society" where we use different drugs to fix any kind of problem we encounter, and a more subtle commentary on Lem's perception of the idiocy and deceit of government.
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- Stanislaw Lem
Jan 1, 2001 · 4.19. 13,093 ratings926 reviews. The Futurological Congress is the fourth satirical science fiction novel in the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy series from Kafka Prize–winning author Stanislaw Lem. “Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem.”—.
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The Futurological Congress (Polish: Kongres futurologiczny) is a 1971 black humour science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem. It details the exploits of the hero of a number of his stories, Ijon Tichy , as he visits the Eighth World Futurological Congress at a Hilton Hotel in Costa Rica . [1]
- Stanisław Lem
- Ze wspomnień Ijona Tichego Kongres futurologiczny
- 1971
- 1971
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The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy. S. Lem. Published 1971. Philosophy. Very late in the 20th century, the narrator, Tichy, accidentally sets out on a journey of discovery that will peel away successive layers of illusion on a nightmare voyage to the core of reality. No Paper Link Available. Save to Library. Create Alert.
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The Futurological Congress is the fourth satirical science fiction novel in the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy series from Kafka Prize–winning author Stanislaw Lem. “Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem.”—Paris Review. Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that ...
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Ijon Tichy is the calm, but worried and fascinated witness of a world gone astray. In the book's first part, he arrives at the Hilton hotel to participate in the eighth futurological congress, which is soon ruined by the local revolution; the situation degenerates further when the governement awkwardly tries to control it by using various substances.
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