Lem Book

[Derek C. Maus]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Otto Sell wrote:

> > Which is the book of forewords to non-existent books?

> The German title is *Imaginäre Groesse* (1973) and I cannot find it at
> amazon.com so I cannot tell the English one.

Translated as "Imaginary Magnitudes"

Umberto Eco did a similar book called "Misreadings", a collection of
publishers' reader's reports for nonexistent books (including a version of
LOLITA in which the "hero" is afflicted with nymphomania, only for
octogenerian woman instead of pre-teens...)

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