Kongres Futurologiczny. Opowiadania Ijona Tichego by Stanislaw Lem

Opowiadania Ijona Tichego

Space-traveling chronicler Ijon Tichy recounts a satirical, hallucinatory episode in which a global futurological congress, utopian planning and mass pharmacology collide: chemical 'therapies' and media manipulation create cascading layers of imposed illusions that reduce society to cheerful compliance, while Tichy stumbles through bureaucratic absurdities, paranoia and surreal encounters trying to distinguish reality from engineered fantasy; the story skewers technocratic hubris, social control and the fragility of human perception with dark humor and philosophical bite.