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.
Read more about this topic: Stanislaw Lem's Fictitious Criticism Of Nonexisting Books
Famous quotes containing the word human:
“I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot enquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premises on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments ... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)