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Book Information: Perfect Vacuum, a

Perfect Vacuum, a (1971) [Novel]
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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. A Review of "A Perfect Vacuum" itself is included.

Contents:
• A Perfect Vacuum by S. Lem
• Les Robinsonades by Marcel Coscat
• Gigamesh by Patrick Hannahan
• Sexplosion by Simon Merrill
• Gruppenfuhrer Louis XVI by Alfred Zellermann
• Rien du tout, ou la consequence by Solange Marriot
• Pericalypsis by Joachim Fersengeld
• Idiota by Gian Carlo Spallanzani
• U-Write-It
• Odysseus of Ithaca by Kuno Mlatje
• Toi by Raymond Seurat
• Being Inc. by Alastair Waynewright
• Die Kultur als Fehler by Wilhelm Klopper
• De Impossibilitate Vitae and De Impossibilitate Prognoscendi by Cezar Kouska
• Non Serviam
• The New Cosmogony

Original title: Doskonala Proznia
Original languages: Polish

Quotes:

Genre: FictionGeneral FictionHumor

Edition #1: A Perfect Vacuum

A Perfect Vacuum (1979)
Edition Details:

Language: English

Edition: English translation
Translated by: Michael Kandel
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Manifested in:

A Perfect Vacuum (1999)

Format: Paperback
Place of publication: Evanston, IL
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810117339
Dimensions: x x x
Pages: 229

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