“Library of the 21st Century” consists of fictitious reviews and forewords to nonexistent books. Lem created mastery parodies of contemporary literary styles and apocryphal concepts of world and man entering a land of texts that „lather ad infinitum”. These sometimes crazy ideas turn to grotesque and absurdity or become penetrating prognoses of the future of our civilization.
“Library of the 21st Century” consists of fictitious reviews and forewords to nonexistent books. Lem created mastery parodies of contemporary literary styles and apocryphal concepts of world and man entering a land of texts that „lather ad infinitum”. These sometimes crazy ideas turn to grotesque and absurdity or become penetrating prognoses of the future of our civilization.