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Avon 29959 ($1.50), First Avon Printing September 1976, "First Paperback Appearance. The Modern Master of Science Fiction." MMPB, 192 numbered pages, pictorial wraps (surreal naked figure walking into distance). Condition: Near Fine. Crisp copy, clean pages, tight binding, minor edgewear. Theodore Sturgeon described Memoirs Found in a Bathtub as "A well-wrought nightmare indeed."Lem himself describes the book as a "combination of grim weirdness with humor". He writes that the novel goes beyond casual political satire: it puts forth the "totalization of the notion of intentionality". Explaining the concept, he writes that everything which humans perceive may be interpreted by them as a message, and that a number of "-isms" are based on interpreting the whole Universe as a message to its inhabitants. This interpretation may be exploited for political purposes and then run amok beyond their intentions.(Courtesy Wikipedia).