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Memoirs Found In A Bathtub (Book)Memoirs Found in a Bathtub is a science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem, translated to English in 1973, and first published in English in 1986. The Polish original Pamiętnik znaleziony w wannie was first published in 1961. Set in a time in the distant future, Memoirs Found in a Bathtub is the horrifying first-hand account of a bureaucratic agent trapped deep within the subterranean bowels of a vast underground military complex. In a maelstrom of terrifying confusion and utter insanity, this man must attempt to follow his mission directives of conducting an "on-the-spot investigation. Verify. Search. Destroy. Incite. Inform. Over and out. On the nth day nth hour sector n subsector n rendezvous with N." Invoking a scene within the mind's eye that is strongly reminiscent of the movie Brazil, we come to see that nothing is as it seems, chaos seems to rule all events, and everyone is deeply suspicious of every one else. In danger of loosing his mind, our protagonist starts keeping a diary, and it is this diary which details only a few days in his life that is ultimately found by a future society and given the title Notes from the Neogene. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub is this distant voice from the past, this Notes from the Neogene. Stanislaw Lem does a tremendous job of plunging the reader into this dark and gritty world, and by weaving a reality so fluid that the book leaves you gasping in shock and questioning everything you've seen and heard.
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