"david.bircumshaw" wrote:
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> PS
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> Josephine, 'Gruppenfuhrer Louis XVI' is no misnomer - one of the points of
> the parable is that the Nazis can't even get the name right - throughout
> they can't talk French but everyone has to pretend they are doing so, the
> whole piece is a devastating satire on the intellectual pretensions of the
> Third Reich, Lem being of that generation who came to maturity during the
> Second World War, which in Poland wasn't a fun place to be.
Dave
I dont recall this one at all, but I have a Polish friend
who owns a lot of his stuff in polish. She was surprised I
had even heard of him.
It was the irony of the missionary tale that stuck in my
memory.
Josie
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