Stanislaw Lem's Fictitious Criticism of Nonexisting Books - Provocation and One Human Minute

Provocation and One Human Minute

Provocation (Prowokacja, 1984) contains two faux reviews:

• "Provocation", for a faux book by Horst Aspernicus: Der Völkermord. I. Die Endlösung als Erlösung. II. Fremdkörper Tod, Getynga 1980
• "One Minute", for a faux book by J. Johnson and S. Johnson: One human minute, Moon Publishers, London - Mare Imbrium - New York 1985. The book is alleged to be a collection of statistical tables, a compilation that includes everything that happens to human life on the planet within any given 60 second period.

One Human Minute or Library of 21st Century (Biblioteka XXI wieku, 1986) contains three faux reviews,

• Das kreative Vernichtungsprinzip. The World as Holocaust
• Weapon Systems of The Twenty First Century or The Upside-down Evolution
• "One Minute", the same as in Provocation

In 2009 the Hungarian film director Pater Sparrow released an award-winning film 1, based on One Human Minute.